Posted on 04/05/2009 12:44:57 PM PDT by JBGUSA
Source was anonymous e-mail so I cannot vouch for accuracy. If anyone has any knowledge I'd like to know.
This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger airplane ever built, sits just outside it's hangar in Toulouse, France , without a single hour of airtime on the clock....
Enter the Arab flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as engine run-ups prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi. 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 take-off 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 take off, 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 !! With the following result...........
The Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technology 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 $200 million brand-new aircraft crashed into a blast barrier, totalling it.
The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown due to the news blackout in the major media.
This was because coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Muslim Arabs.
Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.
£200 million aircraft meets wall. Wall wins.
funny/tragic, but the A-380 is “ the largest passenger airplane ever built “
not the A340-600
Stories involving Muslims and planes always seem to end in crashes.
This is an old incident, btw
This is not the largest passenger aircraft - the Boeing 747 and the Airbus A380 are bigger.
Yes, destruction is one of their sacraments.
The pilot had already informed the plane it was in the air (!) so everything from then on was a Cluster Frag waiting to happen.
A flight team not reading the manual - that’s disturbing! Can’t blame Airbus if the Carrier allows their plane to be used in a roller derby.
A quick reminder of "The Engineers Law":
“Pardon me boy, is this the Abu Dhabi station.”
This series of photos has been circulating for a couple years now.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/etihad.asp
The flight crew should be BANNED FOR LIFE. Is there anyone out there who would like to have any of them on a future flight crew?
The buyer of the aircraft did not even see the need to have their pilots flight-tested and certified for the new craft on simulators at least, before an actual, live trial run?????
Outstanding!!!!!!!
Hey! Can we get these seven guys to be 0bama’s aircrew. We could call it Muslim solidarity.
That’s one of the minor problems of Islam, a deep belief Allah controls EVEREYTHING, therefore there is no incentive to learn, invent or improve.
Also, you need to destroy everything that is against the Quran, since Allah has no control in that area.
Of course, if the incident was the result of untrained Muslim piloting the “official” investigation would hush this up.
FMCDH(BITS)
The Muslims have, in the last few decades, misused technology to trash not only themselves but also, increasingly, the rest of the world.
Programers shorten it to “RTFM”. Apropos in this case, for sure.
The French version of the NTSB investigated this accident and produced a report. This re-telling of it is wrong. The crew didn’t pull any breakers. The nine people onboard were a mixture of Airbus and ADAT personnel.
They were doing engine run-ups on that brand-new A340-600 *with the wheels unchocked.* At some point, as the plane burned off fuel, it got light enough to begin dragging the wheels (or possibly it had enough thrust to overcome the friction of the parking brake). The crew stepped on the main brakes (which did disengage the parking brake) but they didn’t have enough stopping power to hold it either. As it accelerated further, somebody tried to turn it away from the wall, which reduced hydraulic pressure, reducing braking effectiveness even further. It hit the wall doing about 30 knots (~35 mph), rode up over the wall, and broke its back.
Since then, Airbus has changed its testing procedures. There are extra checks to confirm that the landing gear wheels are chocked before a test like this, and no more than two engines (one per side) can be run up at the same time on an A340, not all four as in this case.
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