TAM A320 Completes Latin America’s First Jatropha Biofuel Flight

TAM and Airbus have made the first flight of an airliner powered by Jatropha-based biofuel in Latin America. One of the airline’s CFM International CFM56-powered Airbus A320s operated the 45 min. roundtrip flight on Nov. 22 from Rio de Janeiro’s Galeão Antonio Carlos Jobim International airport with...

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