Here is N366PX, aka the Ditch Witch, on 22 August 2000 in Memphis:
And here she is departing Minneapolis/St. Paul three years later:
Posted on 05/16/2008 8:02:23 PM PDT by shield
The brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger airplane ever built, sat in its hangar in Toulouse, France without a single hour of airtime. Enter the Arab flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as engine runups, prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi. The date was November 15, 2007.
The ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area. Then they took all four engines to takeoff power with a virtually empty aircraft. Not having read the run-up manuals, they had no clue just how light an empty A340-600 really is.
The takeoff warning horn was blaring away in the cockpit because they had all 4 engines at full power. The aircraft computers thought they were trying to takeoff but it had not been configured properly (flaps/slats, etc.) Then one of the ADAT crew decided to pull the circuit breaker on the Ground Proximity Sensor to silence the alarm.
This fools the aircraft into thinking it is in the air.
The computers automatically released all the brakes and set the aircraft rocketing forward. The ADAT crew had no idea that this is a safety feature so that pilots can't land with the brakes on.
Not one member of the seven-man Arab crew was smart enough to throttle back the engines from their max power setting, so the $80 million brand-new aircraft crashed into a blast barrier, totaling it.
The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown, for there has been a news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere. Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Moslem Arabs. Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.
This just goes to show you that no amount of money and training can stupid people any smarter.
The REAL question is - HOW DO YOU LOG THIS TIME?
Here is N366PX, aka the Ditch Witch, on 22 August 2000 in Memphis:
And here she is departing Minneapolis/St. Paul three years later:
“My old man is a television repairman, he’s got this ultimate set of tools.”
You beat me by 42 seconds!
This is EXACTLY the kind of thing I visualize when someone says mohammedan scholar or scientist.
A crashed airplane that never even got into the air.
Maybe someday they will leave the 7th century, but I really don’t expect it for another 3-4 hundred years...
Their existence is insulting to civilized people everywhere. They need to be constantly insulted until they all go back where they came from. jeez
Yes.
RouxStir wrote:
Precisely why muslims should not have access to nukes.”
Hmmm or maybe...?
well played.
priceless!
SUPERCALAFRAGALISTICEXPIALIDODIOUS!
More dumbasstic terrorism!
No way. It was the Mossad that crashed that plane.
Thanks indcons. Semi-old news ping. :’)
Crash a plane into a building? Mistake?
I don’t think so.
It’s what Muslims are good at.
Somehow in the picture the word ETIHAD comes across as looking like the word RETARD.
Must have been a lovely sound. Are we sure there wasn’t a pig in the cockpit?
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