The Airbus A340 has a remarkably strong safety record, and notably, no passenger has ever been killed in a crash involving this aircraft type during a commercial flight. While there have been several "hull losses" (accidents where the plane was damaged beyond repair), they did not result in fatalities for those on board. The most famous incident was Air France Flight 358 in 2005, which overshot the runway in Toronto during a severe thunderstorm and burst into flames; miraculously, all 309 people on board escaped within two minutes. Other hull losses occurred due to ground incidents, such as a 2007 engine test in Toulouse where an unchoked aircraft jumped its blocks and crashed into a wall, and a 1994 hangar fire during maintenance in France. Because the A340 is a four-engine "quad-jet," it was designed for extreme reliability on long-haul transoceanic routes. Although it is now being phased out by many airlines in favor of more fuel-efficient twin-engine planes like the A350, it remains one of the statistically safest aircraft ever built in aviation history.