UK - Airbus - A380 wiring

A view of the interior of the new Airbus 555-seater A380 double deck airliner on display during the Farnborough Airshow. This shows some of the wiring which has caused the two-year delay that could cost the company £2.8bn (£1.9bn). Each A380 has 312 miles of electrical wiring, threaded through the plane in bundles as thick as a human leg. The problem is, engineers at Airbus plants in France and Germany didn't update each other on changes they made as they went along, so when sections of fuselage were shipped to Toulouse for assembly, they didn't fit. The delays originally came to light in the summer, sending shares in parent company EADS crashing by 26% in one day. Airbus has sold 159 of the $250m (£134m) jets to 16 airlines, many of whom are already demanding penalties for late delivery. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images)