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craigb(at)onthenet.com.au
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 Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:41 am Post subject: Off topic- The Tale of The Arab Flight Crew |
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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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rob(at)hyperion-ef.com
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:46 am Post subject: Off topic- The Tale of The Arab Flight Crew |
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While the assertion that “Tale of the Arab Flight Crew” has been blacked out because of misplaced sensitivities may be correct, there is reason to suspect the accuracy of the article’s main points.
The source of this story is “To the Point News” at http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3207/85/ a site that is edited by Dr. Jack Wheeler whose views might be considered a bit outside of the mainstream of contemporary thought. To see why Wheeler might not be playing it straight, see these examples of his political commentary where Wheeler says Obama was using “either amphetamines or cocaine” (http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3208/2/) and McCain is accused of “collaboration with his communist captors” (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=60020)
Wheeler seems, to me at least, to play it “a bit loose” with the facts.
For another on-line report (from a non-political aviation source) of this incident see http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/11/19/219705/toulouse-accident-occurred-as-airbus-a340-was-exiting-engine-test-pen.html
In fairness to Wheeler I must admit that the Flightglobal version lacks substance which in turn lends credence to the Wheeler article.
DO NOT ARCHIVE
Best regards,
Rob Housman
Irvine, CA
Europa XS Tri-Gear
A070
Airframe complete
From: owner-europa-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-europa-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of craig bastin
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 4:38 AM
To: europa-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: Off topic- The Tale of The Arab Flight Crew
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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