as i am new to the board I dont know if any of you have seen these pics.
Sorry That should have been Etihad
How stupid can you get?
Well, this flight crew will show you.
I found these on a pattaya guide heres the link
Photos show total destruction of a $200 million Airbus 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, 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 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 Arabs.
Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.
Airbus $200 million aircraft meets retaining wall and the wall
does its job and wins….
http://www.pattayalovers.com/board/showthread.php?t=221
amazing piccys
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By: tenthije - 1st October 2008 at 19:43
It was all over the news when it happened, and photos are to be found at jetphotos, airliners and a lot of other sites.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1928708/posts
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6109518&nseq=3
By: Short finals - 1st October 2008 at 19:26
The accident had nothing to do with Etihad, as far as I recall, and of course the airline had not taken delivery of the aircraft (and never will). In my opinion the report you posted used the term “Arab” in the same way as in another era the term “Black” might have been used.
By: Arabella-Cox - 1st October 2008 at 18:47
Haha! Etihad have an excellent safety record,she’s got nought to worry about.
By: chester - 1st October 2008 at 17:51
sorry Dan that report is from the pattaya website I just cut and pasted it.
I had not seen or heard of this accident and seen it while reading up on airtravel to pattaya this morning.
Made me chuckle to myself in the fact I will be flying Etihad in a few weeks time from Manchester and the wife got a view of the piccys.
Just about calmed her down now and told here we are on aBoeing all the way
( little white lie never hurt anyone) 🙂
By: Arabella-Cox - 1st October 2008 at 16:45
The link doesn’t work properly, it’s asking me to log in. However, I know the incident you are talking about, it was very big news at the time.
What you’ve written though is very harsh, don’t forget these are proffesionals. Not like they’ve never sat in an A340 before. Probably just a mistake.
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