Airbus marks 10-year anniversary of A380, world's largest civil aircraft

When the world’s largest passenger airliner took to the skies 10 years ago Monday, the double-decker jet was hailed as the next generation in air travel.

The specs of the Airbus A380 were -- and remain -- impressive in scope: a maximum seating capacity of 853; two passenger decks equal to three single tennis courts; and a take-off thrust equal to the horsepower of 2,500 family cars.

A 17-Year-Old Trapped But Alive on Everest

Teenage mountaineer Matt Moniz, on another climb. (Photo: Climb7.com)

Seventeen-year-old climbing wunderkind Matt Moniz of Boulder, Colo. is one of the 150 people stuck along on Mount Everest — without his parents. He is one of the lucky ones. He is still alive. 

Moniz and his team — including experienced climbers Willie Benegas and Jim Walkley — were at Everest Base Camp (or “EBC,” as the climbing community calls it) on Saturday when an avalanche swept through the community of climbers and killed at least 17, or, by some accounts, more than 30. The rush of snow and ice injured dozens more. Even climbers who had climbed above EBC to Camps 1 and 2 were affected; the Khumbu Icefall (the route between EBC and higher points on Everest) was rendered impassable and irreparable. Trapped, those at the higher camps have been waiting for helicopter rescue.