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Airbus A340 Meets Wall. Airbus Loses.(OOPS!)
Airline Empires ^
| November 26, 2007
| miller22
Posted on 12/02/2007 5:12:08 PM PST by uglybiker
Etihad was to receive their next A340 this week, but it seems that delivery may be delayed. While running an engine test at the Airbus facility in Toulouse, France, the A340-600 jumped the chocks and headed for the blast wall. The good news is the blast wall held up remarkably well. The bad news is the Airbus did not.
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KEYWORDS: airbus; airline; airplane; aviation; boeing; freepun; happenedon15nov2007; jumpedthechocks; oops; planecrash
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I hate when that happens.
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:12:08 PM PST
by
uglybiker
To: uglybiker
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:14:10 PM PST
by
Poser
(Willing to fight for oil)
To: uglybiker
Is that covered by the warranty?
To: uglybiker
The wall is gonna need a paint job, too.
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:15:31 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Hunter 2008)
To: uglybiker
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:15:50 PM PST
by
G8 Diplomat
(Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
To: uglybiker
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:16:15 PM PST
by
golfisnr1
(Democrats are like roaches - hard to get rid of.)
To: uglybiker
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:16:43 PM PST
by
RaceBannon
(Innocent until proven guilty; The Pendleton 8: We are not going down without a fight)
To: G8 Diplomat
That gives a whole new meaning to AirBust.
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:16:49 PM PST
by
Oldexpat
To: RaceBannon
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:17:35 PM PST
by
G8 Diplomat
(Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
To: uglybiker
It'll take at least a week to get that plane airworthy again.
As an aside, here's a nice aviation image for the Christmas season:
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:18:25 PM PST
by
Disambiguator
(Political Correctness is criminal insanity writ large.)
To: uglybiker
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:19:39 PM PST
by
Delta 21
( MKC USCG - ret)
To: uglybiker
Oops! A hundred million dollar mistake. Somebody’s gonna get a week off!
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:21:16 PM PST
by
saganite
To: uglybiker
If you’re a clever captain, you change into your “civies” and come off the plane like a passenger saying something like “I’m never going up in one of these again!”
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:21:27 PM PST
by
capt. norm
(Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
To: uglybiker
I hate when that happens.
But at least they didn't use a frozen turkey.
(The cognesceti will recognize that one from an old joke about
the impact testing of airliner windshields.)
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:22:01 PM PST
by
VOA
To: uglybiker
This is BS.
Blast walls are behind engines, not in front. Something else happened.
ML/NJ
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:22:33 PM PST
by
ml/nj
To: ml/nj
Maybe more than one blast wall?
To: uglybiker
La Precedent. Montparnasse, 1895.
Actually, the blast wall did not come through fine.
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:24:47 PM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
To: vbmoneyspender
No warranty action involved. Since it was due for delivery next month, Airbus still owns the aircraft.
Given how complex these aircraft are (100s of miles of cabling, etc.), can’t imagine this aircraft’s fuselage is repairable. It will probably be parted out.
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:25:18 PM PST
by
Captain Rhino
( If we have the WILL to do it, there is nothing built in China that we cannot do without.)
To: Captain Rhino
Sell-off the bits on E-Bay...
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:26:48 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: uglybiker
I think this could qualify as a Type 1 Fubar.
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:27:21 PM PST
by
abb
(The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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