[BITList] Oops THERE GOES THE PLANE

[John Feltham]

OOPS!
This brand spanking  new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger  
airplane ever  built, sits just outside 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 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 due to the
news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere.


Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Muslim Arabs.




Finally, the photos are starting to leak out …



A French Airbus …………………. $200 million dollars
Untrained Arab Flight Crew……… $300,000 Yearly Salary
Unread Operating Manual………... $300

AIRCRAFT MEETS RETAINING WALL --  WALL WINS

PRICELESS!

"That's why God gave them camels"!




ooroo

Bad typists of the word, untie.




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