Over 100 distraught relatives of passengers from the missing airbus hunkered down at a makeshift crisis center at the Surabaya airport, waiting anxiously for news.
The airbus wingtips will do something similar When unlocked in flight they will be capable of flapping freely up and down during gusts of wind or periods of turbulence.
The company is nonetheless on the back foot Plans to develop a new jet to replace aging 757s have been put on hold That has left the field to airbus whose A321XLR does a similar job In December United Airlines.