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15 Years in Service: Lufthansa Airbus A340 Celebrates Climate Research Milestone
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FIRST SEEN8 Jul, 06:0015 Years in Service: Lufthansa Airbus A340 Celebrates Climate Research Milestone
Lufthansa’s Airbus A340-300 “Viersen” (D-AIGT) has marked 15 years of collecting vital climate data during regular passenger flights as part of the European IAGOS research program.
AviationSource News•Len Varley
LATEST8 Jul, 08:00Lufthansa celebrates further 15 years of climate research flights
Fifteen years ago on July 8, 2011, Lufthansa’s Airbus A340-300 with the registration “D-AIGT” flew from Frankfurt (FRA) to Lagos (LOS) not just to transport passengers, but with its added mission to collect important data for climate research. This marked a world’s-first for long-term observation of the Earth’s atmosphere using scheduled flights. IAGOS Project The […]
Travel Radar•Kate Angel