This
brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest
passenger airplane ever built, sits just outside
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 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
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 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.
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 due to
the news blackout in the major media in France
and elsewhere. Because........
Coverage
of the story was deemed insulting to Muslim
Arabs.
Finally,
the photos are starting to leak out.
One French
Airbus: $200 million dollars
Untrained Arab
Flight Crew: $300,000 Yearly Salary
Unread
Operating Manual: $300
Aircraft meets
retaining wall and the wall
wins.
PRICELESS!!!
"And
that's why God gave them
camels"!
NOW
u KNOW....
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