The loss of an Airbus A400M and four crew on a test flight on May 9 was caused by incorrectly installed software, an Airbus official told a German newspaper last week.
"The black boxes attest … that there are no structural defects, but we have a serious quality problem in the final assembly," Marwan Lahoud, Airbus' chief strategy officer, told Handelsblatt. No problems were found with the software itself, which controls the airplane's four turboprop engines.
In a statement to AFP, Airbus said the investigation is still continuing and "it is too early to draw any conclusions … like all accidents, it will certainly be a combination of issues and not one single cause." The company also said the A400M aircraft in service have already been checked and are "100 percent protected from this failure."
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