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Airbus agrees some A400M problems ‘home-made’

aTP-  Arab tourism portal- Airbus chief Tom Enders conceded in a newspaper interview yesterday that some of the “massive problems” dogging the European airplane manufacturer’s new military transporter, the A400M, were of the group’s own making.
 “We underestimated -----the engine problems,” Enders told the Bild am Sonntag.

 At the start of the programme, Airbus had “let itself be persuaded by some well-known European leaders into using an engine made by an inexperienced consortium,” Enders said.Furthermore, it had let itself be roped into assuming full responsibility for this new type of turbo-prop engine, he continued.

“These are two massive problems which we’re now paying for.” But in addition to the “insufficient quality of the supplier ... home-made problems are also playing a role,” Enders said.  Despite delivery delays and limitations in its operational readiness, Enders said governments should not start looking for alternatives.