A400 Atlas crash

[Paul K]

Lost on a test flight in Spain. Fatalities, unfortunately.

Link

[Airspeed]

Oh, dear.
Condolences to all concerned.

[dodger]

Terrible Absolutely Terrible,

Roger.

[JohnWillimas]

Very sad but it gave rise to bizarre communication from the UK MOD who said that "the UK’s A400M aircraft operations have been paused." I just had a vision of someone in the MOD pressing a big "P" key and aircraft hanging in mid-air. Or am I alone in thinking this is an odd way of talking about it?

[Airspeed]

Hi John,
I guess he's treading carefully, not saying "they're grounded", just that they'll hold off until they have more info.