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بل طيران الاتحاد والطيارة يديدة
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downey

No kidding that the airbus did not survive, in this case pictures are worth a thousand words.

WOW! Someone isn't sleeping well these days.....

some one will feel that in the morning

Last word's on the CVR, did we put the parking brake on ?

That doesn't look like an airbus that I want to fly in anytime soon!

Just a routine run-up check. The manual is handy if needed.

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 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 the aircraft 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 fooled the aircraft into thinking it was 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 bright 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 leaked out

Muslims are insulted no matter what you say! They need to OWN UP like a man and admit they screwed up! Who do they think they are? And where do they get all this money to buy and outfit these awesome planes! Thank the USA for that! Why aren't they feeding the poor with all this money???? They fly better than us obviously, so tell the Muslims to SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!

be quiet and go away

The plane was repaired, it took 3 weeks to get it ready but the order was canceled and this paritcular plane is now on banana republican dutys.

That is absolutely positively impossible to repair that plane in 3 weeks. I worked structures/stress engineering on Cessna Jets and a few props...in one case we had two planes collide (reasonable speed, one plane sitting, another being taxied) in which the wing of one plane went through the tail cone of another just aft of the aft pressure bulkhead. The tip of the wing ripped through 4 frames, buckled both engine beams...over 3 weeks of just ripping the plane apart to find problems. Ended up replacing the entire tailcone! Re-install took MONTHS! And comparatively the damage on this plane is catastrophic. Can you imagine the re-install of the avionics? SNAP! That thing won't be in the air in probably over a year, honestly.

this is a Hoax.think about and have a brain. :)

No kidding that the airbus did not survive, in this case pictures are worth a thousand words.