Subject: Aircraft meets retaining wall
Airbus $200 million aircraft meets retaining wall and
the wall wins....
How stupid can you get? Well, this Arab flight crew
will show you. Photos show total destruction of a $200million aircraft,
brand new off the assembly line. THE TALE OF THE ARAB
FLIGHT CREW Written by To The Point News Friday, 16
May 2008
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 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
$200 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 Muslim Arabs.
Finally,the photos are starting
to leak out...
Maybe they should stick to camels
A
brand new Airbus A340-600 just painted in Etihad Airways' colors was
being readied for delivery in November 2007. The jet was at
the manufacturing facility in Toulouse, France and undergoing some
pre-delivery tests. It was to be delivered to the Abu Dhabi-based
airline the following week. Nine crew members were on board,
one of whom was an employee of Abu Dhabi Aircraft
Technologies, a service provider to
Etihad Airways. The nationalities
and affiliations of the other crew members