4 years ago
LONDON (AP) -- The biggest passenger plane ever built has landed at Europe's busiest airport to test whether London's Heathrow can handle it.
Two British flags were hanging from the cockpit windows of the Airbus A-380 as it taxied toward a specially engineered loading gate.
Britain's Treasury minister Gordon Brown calls it a "great day for British manufacturing" and for "European cooperation."
Heathrow operators have already spent about 850 (m) million dollars to widen and strengthen runways, and make other upgrades to accommodate the double-decker behemoth and its 555-passenger load.
On its way from the Berlin Air Show, the superjumbo flew over the plant in Wales where the huge Airbus wings are made.
