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.
The only part of this story that was completely accurate, BTW—nobody pulled the throttles back. According to the French report, they had only 13 seconds between the A340 first started moving and the impact with the wall. In that time, nobody grabbed the throttles and yanked them back to idle.
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These guys were not flight crew. They were ground crew. It’s perfectly ordinary for non-pilot maintenance personnel to do things like engine run-up testing on aircraft. This time, Airbus screwed up by not having the wheels securely chocked.
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epic fail
allu akhbar
If ya gotta buy Western planes...hire Western pilots.
There they go again, driving planes at full power, without any regard for life or property.
“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.”
Substitute the word “government” for allah and you have the democrap party belief.
Would they be able to hold back 224,000 pounds of thrust?
I assume they’ve got some sort of chock or gizmo that can hold it—if not, somebody really screwed up running up all four engines at one time instead of doing them in pairs (as their procedure says now).
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ETIHAD A340-600 ACCIDENT PHOTOS
PICTURE: Etihad A340-600 jumps chocks, hits wall; 5 injured
Ten Injured in Ground Test [Airbus]
There's a reason why emails are supposed to be posted in chat.
I'm no great fan of the muslim hordes, but I had to quit reading after this little gem.
The A380 is the largest passenger airplane ever built.
Just sayin...
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