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Offline Kenny

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Read The Owners Manual
« on: February 13, 2013, 06:01:50 PM »
This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, a 200 Million dollar aircraft and one of  the largest passenger airplane ever built, sits just outside its hanger 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 take-off 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 take-off 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, totalling it.



Guess they should have read the manuals…


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Re: Read The Owners Manual
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2013, 06:02:58 PM »
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Re: Read The Owners Manual
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2013, 06:55:48 PM »
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Offline IrishAyes

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Re: Read The Owners Manual
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2013, 07:53:28 PM »
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Re: Read The Owners Manual
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2013, 09:25:29 PM »
I never read the manual.


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Re: Read The Owners Manual
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2013, 11:31:23 PM »
I bet they had another one waiting for them.  Oh well all it is is money.
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Re: Read The Owners Manual
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2013, 05:55:46 AM »
 thud,  The price of oil just went up $2 a barrel.  Thanks Akmed
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Re: Read The Owners Manual
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2013, 11:30:00 AM »
fcp I am speechless... IDIOTS!!!!!

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Re: Read The Owners Manual
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2013, 04:32:13 PM »
talk about a FAIL!!!
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Re: Read The Owners Manual
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2013, 02:14:59 PM »
Gee wiz they seem to crash planes everywhere!  fngr

 

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