This was sent to me by a relative, apparently it was blacked out from the
news in europe etc due to Muslim sensitivity concerns
Subject: The Tale of The Arab Flight Crew
How stupid can you get? Well, this Arab flight crew will
show you. Photos
Show total destruction of a $200 million aircraft, brand
new off the
assembly line.
THE TALE OF THE ARAB FLIGHT CREW
Written by To The Point News
Friday, 16 May 2008
The brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest
passenger airplane ever
built, sat in its hangar inToulouse, 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 Moslem Arabs. Finally, the photos are starting to leak
out. Airbus $200
million aircraft meets retaining wall and the wall
wins....
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