F-GLZQ — routes, history & safety record

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Safety history

August 2, 2005AccidentHull loss
The Air France Airbus A340-313 aircraft (registration F-GLZQ, serial number 0289) departed Paris, France, at 1153 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as Air France Flight 358 on a scheduled flight to Toronto, Ontario, with 297 passengers and 12 crew members on board.
Airbus A340-300
Findings as to Causes and Contributing Factors: 1. The crew conducted an approach and landing in the midst of a severe and rapidly changing thunderstorm. There were no procedures within Air France related to distance required from thunderstorms during approaches and landing, nor were these required by regulations. 2. Full accident record

Transportation Safety Board of Canada records1 on file

Worst recorded outcome: destroyed (August 2, 2005).

August 2, 2005Accidentdestroyed
Airbus A340-300 · Toronto · A05H0002
A05H0002: Air France Flight 358, an Airbus A-340-313, was on a flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle, France to Lester B. Pearson Airport in Toronto, Canada, with 297 passengers and 12 crew on board. On landing on runway 24L at Toronto, at 1602 Eastern Daylight Time, the aircraft ran off the end of the runway and slid…

Source: TSB Aviation Safety Information System (ASIS) (open data).