QuoteDisplay MoreDid anyone see this in the news?
Be sure to look at the pictures . . . .
Read the operating manual before you touch anything.
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.
Airbus $200 million aircraft meets retaining wall
and the wall wins...
And Arabs want to rule the world!
See attached pics.
When all else fails...
- Pakundo
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There are 3 replies in this Thread. The last Post () by Centaurian.
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That's all pretty stupid, but i fail to see what being arab has to do with being stupid. I remember a plane crashing at an airshow in France in which the plane went down because the pilots did a maneouver the bordcomputer said was impossible, and they didn't think of listening to the comp and subsequently crashed.
If i remember that correctly, all the three people on board left the evolutionary competition that day.I guess it's pretty safe to assess that stupidity is universal, or at least global.
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Originally posted by lucy in the sky
I guess it's pretty safe to assess that stupidity is universal, or at least global.That's what my Bulgarian and Literature teacher keeps telling my class although no one listens. And I happened to agree with her the first time she said it which was about 2 years ago. And so has the literature teachers from my previous schools.
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Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Muslim Arabs.
Too bad they didn't have some C-4 along; they could have been hailed as martyrs, then...
