Damaged A300 Not Aircraft Involved In American Crash

Airbus confirmed that the Airbus A300-600 that sustained aft fuselage damage in a Dec. 3, 1987, windstorm at Toulouse was not the American Flight 587 accident aircraft, as had been initially reported in The Washington Post. According to affiliate Aviation Week, the aircraft, tail-heavy because its...

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