This Would Be Funny, If It Weren't So Serious
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.
Maybe they didn't read the instruction manual, because Allah has provided them with everything they need in the Krayon and the Hadith.
Amazing.
Allah must have meant to destroy the Infidel technology.
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The A380 is the largest plane ever built... the A340 is their long range low passenger count plane, and it's EXTREMELY COMFY. Lufthansa has a bunch.
ReplyDeleteHowever the point is the same.
This is a great Darwin story. No way that flight crew is alive.
It IS insulting to arabs.
So?
Epa,
ReplyDeleteIt IS insulting to Arabs.
Yep, the Arabs insulted themselves again.
:)
ROFL-and I still am :-)
ReplyDeleteArabs are always insulting themselves. It's a pattern.
ReplyDelete..thus...they must strap bombs onto themselves....
ReplyDeleteChristian Soldier,
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Your theory on why Arabs strap on bombs and blow themselves up will keep me laughing the rest of the day.
I think you hit the nail on the head.
Question . . .who will take responsibility for training this ADAT crew? Given this is an elite aircraft . . .If this crew of 8 was the elite of the ADAT pilots, I personally would feel better knowing they each received their training without any US involvement.
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