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Airbus A350F freighter aircraft completes initial test flight

Rank
Ran
35h
Updated
5d ago
Final
Outlets
9
Regions
3
Countries
8
Languages
6

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Bloomberg United States · English 29 Sept, 08:32 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Español (1) · Français (1) · Nederlands (1) · Русский (1) · Українська (1) · +4 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 36 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Bloomberg, 29 Sept, 08:32 UTC.
  2. Second country: France, with Le Figaro.
  3. Second region: Europe, with Le Figaro.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 29 Sept, 08:32 UTC.
  5. Last article: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

37 of 37 hours

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The 8 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

33%22%45%

  • Americas 3 outlets · 2 countries · 33%
  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 4 countries · 45%

First movers

  1. Bloomberg 29 Sept, 08:32 UTC
  2. Le Figaro +33m
  3. Unian +2h 31m
  4. Kommersant +3h 4m
  5. Tuoi Tre News +5h 46m

Last to join

  1. Clarín 30 Sept, 21:01 UTC
  2. ARY News 29 Sept, 20:29 UTC
  3. FreightWaves 29 Sept, 16:18 UTC
  4. Het Laatste Nieuws 29 Sept, 15:18 UTC
  5. Tuoi Tre News 29 Sept, 14:19 UTC

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 8 countries, across 3 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 9 outlets, 1 state-owned, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Argentina, United States. Asia-Pacific 2: Pakistan, Vietnam. Europe 4: Belgium, France, Russia, Ukraine. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Russian, Ukrainian.
Timeline
Earliest article Bloomberg, 29 Sept 2026, 08:32 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 09:10 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 21:01 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Europe, France. Topic Business & economy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continued by 111 ton yük taşıyabilen dev uçak ilk kez havalandı; Avec l’A350F, Airbus se lance dans les très gros avions-cargos afin de surfer sur le boom mondial du fret aérien. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
29 Sept 2026 179 7.23 8 7 8 7 3.3 → 4.0
30 Sept 2026 127 8.61 9 8 1 1 4.0

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Started 29 Sept, 09:10 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 21:01 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Americas 3 outlets

  • Clarín Argentina 30 Sept, 21:01 UTC
    Europa busca romper el dominio de Estados Unidos en un mercado clave: los aviones de carga pesada
  • FreightWaves United States 29 Sept, 16:18 UTC
    Airbus A350 freighter aircraft completes initial test flight
  • Bloomberg United States 29 Sept, 08:32 UTC
    Airbus Freighter Takes First Flight to Challenge Boeing’s 777

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • ARY News Pakistan 29 Sept, 20:29 UTC
    Airbus flies A350F freighter in challenge to Boeing
  • Tuoi Tre News Vietnam 29 Sept, 14:19 UTC
    Airbus flies A350F freighter in challenge to Boeing

Europe 4 outlets

  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium 29 Sept, 15:18 UTC
    KIJK. Nieuwste vrachtvliegtuig van Airbus vliegt voor het eerst
  • Kommersant Russia 29 Sept, 11:36 UTC
    Новый грузовой самолет Airbus A350F совершил первый полет
  • Unian Ukraine 29 Sept, 11:04 UTC
    Велетенський транспортний літак нового покоління від Airbus здійснив перший політ
  • Le Figaro France 29 Sept, 09:05 UTC
    Avec l’A350F, Airbus défie Boeing sur le marché du fret aérien
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