An Airbus Beluga XL from Saint-Nazaire declared an emergency and diverted to Amsterdam.
The Airbus Beluga XL #3 (registration F-GXLI) departed an Airbus factory in Saint-Nazaire, France this Tuesday, September 10 2024 afternoon and climbed to 34,000 ft.
The aircraft was on its way to Hamburg XFW, another Airbus site when the crew declared an emergency when entering The Netherlands airspace.
The Beluga started to descent and was vectored to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport where it landed on runway 18C.
The aircraft is now parked in a remote area with transponder still active at the time we are writing this article.
The Airbus BelugaXL (A330-743L) is a large transport aircraft based on the Airbus A330-200F built by Airbus to transport very large aircraft components, such as two A350 wings.
The aircraft maker has a fleet of 6 Beluga XLs with capacity of 50,500 kg (111,333 lb) payload.
