Airbus meets wall.

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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 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

Th 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 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.

Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.

£200 million aircraft meets wall.

Wall wins.

But your secret is safe with me and all my other email pals…

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apologies for the sizing and stuff…

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Doh!

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That’ll buff out :smiley:

I’m pretty sure the insurance company wasn’t too pleased…

Seriously though, why didn’t these asshats cut the power, hit the kill switch (no idea if Airbuses have these), or put the circuit breaker back in they just took out? Guess they weren’t really the brightest of the bunch…

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Granted - they were dumbasses for not reading the f*cking manual - but why the emphasis on them being Arab? It was corporate human error - something which happens to everybody - including Arabs. :wink:

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there was no emphasis, it was mentioned once. much as it would’ve been had they been english, or french, or german, or american

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you break it you bought it!!

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Also, just realized… wouldn’t you chock the wheels before attempting anything like cranking all engines to full power when stationary? Just sayin’ :wink:

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No - it was mentioned twice.

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wow nice work bet their gutted about that

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thought i had taken that reference out.

the original email goes on and on and gets very anti-arab because of the alledged news black out on it.

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Apparently this was in November 2007

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Thanks Chenster for clarifying that - I thought so :wink: . Still a funny article - and they were still dumbasses - but it didn’t take a genius to work out there was an anti-Arab undercurrent to it.What if the crew had been Israeli - and they had felt the need to mention that they were Jewish in every other paragraph - you would not need to be a genius to work out there was something else going on in the article.

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have edited it AGAIN.

no need for any more skewing…

:ermm:

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This is interesting. The story I heard was the mistake was by Airbus - they were testing the brakes by running the engines at full power but someone had forgotten to chock the wheels, so when the plane started moving, the Airbus technician at the controls steered the plane away from the wall to try to avoid it but unfortunately he only made matters worse as that reduced hydraulic pressure to the brakes.There were ADAT employees on board, but they weren’t controlling the aircraft. Not sure where this new info has come from, but I doubt it would have been covered up at the time if it were true.

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so it seems…

slow internet news day i guess

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Bit of gaffa tape, good as new.

Ba-da-bing.

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:cool::smiley:

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Thanks eezyrida :wink: so the article does seem to be a racist attempt to slur Arabs as incompetent ‘camel-jockeys’ not fit to be in charge of hi-tech equipment.an air industry expert quoted in eezyriders article said:"I find it hard to believe that all the rules got broken because ADAT came along. It was at the Airbus headquarters, it was an Airbus test pen, it was an Airbus engineer at the right hand seat, which is where the report said control inputs were coming from. An ADAT engineer was in the left seat."I know that that was not Chenster’s intention in posting it :wink: .I’m half-Arab/half-English myself and I can spot this sh1t a mile off. :slight_smile:

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lol…we’ve got this on the wall at work…lol…funny story it is too…

p.s SID…while ur there…can you please tell your arab captains too stop farting in the cockpit…some of us have to work in there afterwards…:P.

smiled:).