The Airbus Beluga was hit while taking off from Hawarden Airport, Flintshire, at about 13:00 GMT on Tuesday. The whale-shaped jet, used to transport parts of other planes around the world ...

[Credit: Airbus] Airbus has shut down its new for-hire cargo airline focused on transporting oversize shipments using the odd-shaped Beluga superfreighter ... closed them off to a lot of business.” ...

The Beluga 'Super-Transporters' had been the planes that transported large parts between Airbus sites, including taking wings from Airbus Broughton. But they have been phased out in recent years ...