Editing Airbus A330 (section)

=== Accidents ===
The A330's first fatal accident occurred on 30 June 1994 near Toulouse [[Airbus Industrie Flight 129|on a test flight]] when an Airbus-owned A330-300 crashed while simulating an engine failure on climbout, killing all seven on board.{{sfn|Norris|Wagner|2001|pp=86–87}} Airbus subsequently advised A330 operators to disconnect the autopilot and limit pitch attitude in the event of an engine failure at low speed.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Airbus defends A330 but warns on autopilot |last=Learmount |first=David |magazine=Flight International |issue=4429 |volume=146 |page=4 |date=13–19 July 1994 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1994/1994%20-%201630.html |access-date=19 February 2012 |issn=0161-7370}}</ref>

[[File:Voo Air France 447-2006-06-14.jpg|thumb|The [[vertical stabilizer]] recovered from [[Air France Flight 447]]]]
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The second fatal and deadliest accident, and first while in commercial service, occurred on 1 June 2009 when [[Air France Flight 447]], an A330-200 registered as F-GZCP, en route from [[Rio de Janeiro]] to Paris with 228 people on board, crashed in the Atlantic Ocean {{cvt|640|-|800|km|nmi mi}} northeast of the islands of [[Fernando de Noronha]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/06/01/327211/air-france-no-success-in-contacting-missing-a330.html |title=Air France: No success in contacting missing A330 |date=1 June 2009 |work=Air Transport Intelligence news |last=Kaminski-Morrow |first=David |access-date=1 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605112508/http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/06/01/327211/air-france-no-success-in-contacting-missing-a330.html |archive-date=5 June 2009}}</ref> with no survivors. Malfunctioning [[pitot tube]]s provided an early focus for the investigation,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8087303.stm |title=Bodies found from missing plane |date=6 June 2009 |work=BBC News |access-date=6 June 2009}}</ref> as the aircraft involved had [[Thales Group|Thales]]-built "–AA" models known to indicate faulty airspeed data during icing conditions.<ref name="pitot">{{cite web|url=http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=comm&id=news/aw081009p1.xml |title=Response to Airbus Pitot Tube Incidents Under Scrutiny |work=Aviation Week & Space Technology |date=9 August 2009 |last=Flottau |first=Jens |access-date=19 February 2012}}{{Dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> In July 2009, Airbus advised A330 and A340 operators to replace Thales pitots with equivalents manufactured by [[Goodrich Corporation|Goodrich]].<ref name=pitot /> Investigators later determined that the inadequate response of the pilots to both a loss of airspeed data from malfunctioning pitot tubes and subsequent autopilot disengagement followed by incorrect reaction by the pilot flying resulted in Flight 447 entering into an [[aerodynamic stall]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Wise |first1=Jeff |year=2011 |title=What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447|magazine=Popular Mechanics |url=http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877 |access-date=4 January 2011}}</ref>

On 12 May 2010, [[Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771]], an A330-200 registered as 5A-ONG, crashed on approach to [[Tripoli International Airport]], Libya, on a flight from [[OR Tambo International Airport|O. R. Tambo International Airport]], Johannesburg, South Africa. Of the 104 people on board, all but one nine-year-old Dutch child died.<ref name="BBC8676758">{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8676758.stm |title= Plane crash in Libya 'kills more than 100 on board' |work= BBC News |date= 12 May 2010 |access-date=12 March 2011}}</ref> The cause of the crash was determined to be pilot error.<ref name="Afqiyah_fg">{{cite web|title=Illusion and ambiguous control led to Afriqiyah A330 crash |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/illusion-and-ambiguous-control-led-to-afriqiyah-a330-382873/|website=flightglobal.com |publisher=Flight Globai|access-date=30 August 2014}}</ref>

On 23 October 2022, [[Korean Air Flight 631]], an Airbus A330-300 registered as HL7525, operating from Seoul to Cebu, crash landed and overshot the runway while landing in poor weather at night; there were no fatalities or injuries.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Airbus A330-322 HL7525 Mactan-Cebu International Airport (CEB) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20221023-0 |access-date=2022-10-24 |website=aviation-safety.net}}</ref>