Airbus and Singapore Airlines (SIA) technical personnel are carrying out detailed landing gear checks on the carrier’s sole Airbus A380 today following a minor incident last night while the aircraft was being towed prior to departure from Singapore Changi airport.

Last night’s incident involved flight SQ221 that operates daily between Singapore and Sydney. SIA says a ground vehicle being used to push back the aircraft “experienced some form of failure which caused the truck to disconnect with the aircraft”.

It adds: “As a consequence of the failure on the truck, the aircraft, an Airbus A380, came into contact with the grass verge off the airport

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