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Over 300 British, Belgian and US paratroopers jumped from three A400M transport aircraft over Normandy in France yesterday, recreating the 'D-Day' landings on its 80th Anniversary.

Germany on Sunday shuttered its embassy in Kabul and prepared to send A400M military transport planes to Afghanistan to evacuate as many Germans and local Afghan helpers as possible, after Taliban insurgents entered the Afghan capital.

Airbus on Thursday took a new 1.3 billion euro ($1.6 billion) hit on its A400M military transport plane, lifting charges on Europe's troubled defence project above 8 billion euros and clouding higher-than-expected underlying profits.

The crash of an Airbus A400M military transport plane last month hasn't affected export orders, the firm's chief executive said today, adding Airbus hoped to land new customers soon.

Airbus is still waiting for Spain to give the green light to resume test flights of the A400M military plane, the company said Friday, after they were suspended in May following a fatal crash.

Airbus said today its A400M would take part in the flying display at the Paris airshow next week, just over a month after one of the planes fatally crashed in Spain after a massive engine failure.

An analysis of the black boxes of the A400M military plane which crashed in Spain on May 9, killing four, has revealed that three of the aircraft's four engines failed, Airbus said today.

Analysis of the flight recorders of the A400M which crashed in Spain on May 9, killing four, indicated there were no structural faults but assembly quality problems, a senior Airbus executive said in a newspaper interview to appear on Friday.

Airbus on Tuesday carried out the first test flight of a new A400M since one of the military transport planes crashed in Spain over the weekend, killing four people.

Airbus said it will carry on with test flights of its A400M military transport plane despite a crash in Spain of one of the aircraft that killed four employees who were honoured Monday with a moment of silence at the company's factories.

Britain, Germany and Turkey said Sunday they were temporarily grounding their Airbus A400M military transport planes after one crashed near Seville airport in southern Spain during a test flight.

Spanish authorities on Sunday found the two cockpit recorders of an Airbus A400M military plane that crashed near Seville airport, killing four of the six people on board, the government said.

Spanish authorities today hailed as heroes three people who helped rescue two survivors of an Airbus A400M military plane crash near Seville airport that killed four people the previous day.

Capable of transporting up to 37 tons over 3,300 kilometres, the A400M is still nimble enough to land on irregular terrain.

At least three people were killed when an Airbus A400M military plane crashed near Seville airport in southern Spain Saturday, the regional emergency services said.

Over 300 British, Belgian and US paratroopers jumped from three A400M transport aircraft over Normandy in France yesterday, recreating the 'D-Day' landings on its 80th Anniversary.

Germany on Sunday shuttered its embassy in Kabul and prepared to send A400M military transport planes to Afghanistan to evacuate as many Germans and local Afghan helpers as possible, after Taliban insurgents entered the Afghan capital.

Airbus on Thursday took a new 1.3 billion euro ($1.6 billion) hit on its A400M military transport plane, lifting charges on Europe's troubled defence project above 8 billion euros and clouding higher-than-expected underlying profits.

The crash of an Airbus A400M military transport plane last month hasn't affected export orders, the firm's chief executive said today, adding Airbus hoped to land new customers soon.

Airbus is still waiting for Spain to give the green light to resume test flights of the A400M military plane, the company said Friday, after they were suspended in May following a fatal crash.

Airbus said today its A400M would take part in the flying display at the Paris airshow next week, just over a month after one of the planes fatally crashed in Spain after a massive engine failure.

An analysis of the black boxes of the A400M military plane which crashed in Spain on May 9, killing four, has revealed that three of the aircraft's four engines failed, Airbus said today.

Analysis of the flight recorders of the A400M which crashed in Spain on May 9, killing four, indicated there were no structural faults but assembly quality problems, a senior Airbus executive said in a newspaper interview to appear on Friday.

Airbus on Tuesday carried out the first test flight of a new A400M since one of the military transport planes crashed in Spain over the weekend, killing four people.

Airbus said it will carry on with test flights of its A400M military transport plane despite a crash in Spain of one of the aircraft that killed four employees who were honoured Monday with a moment of silence at the company's factories.

Britain, Germany and Turkey said Sunday they were temporarily grounding their Airbus A400M military transport planes after one crashed near Seville airport in southern Spain during a test flight.

Spanish authorities on Sunday found the two cockpit recorders of an Airbus A400M military plane that crashed near Seville airport, killing four of the six people on board, the government said.

Spanish authorities today hailed as heroes three people who helped rescue two survivors of an Airbus A400M military plane crash near Seville airport that killed four people the previous day.

Capable of transporting up to 37 tons over 3,300 kilometres, the A400M is still nimble enough to land on irregular terrain.

At least three people were killed when an Airbus A400M military plane crashed near Seville airport in southern Spain Saturday, the regional emergency services said.