The Tale Of The Arab Flight Crew
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Do not drink anything while reading this story….
The brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger airplane ever built, 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 date was November 15, 2007.
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 $80 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.
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No wonder the left want to negotiate, they are on the same wave length. Totally makes sense, total aircraft, total country, Arab leadership, Barak Obama.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:35 pmMore self censorship from dhimmi europe.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:36 pmThe A380 is bigger.
Funny story though.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:36 pmA whole bunch of folks are going to get their heads lobbed off for this little fender bender.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:39 pmare those santa’s elves in the last pic?
“Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Moslem Arabs.”…..BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA! these folks are to used to flying carpets! - morons
May 29th, 2008 at 12:41 pmIt’s a good thing I peed before I sat here to read, lol.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:46 pmWell, who can blame them? I heard they never worry about landing or taking off…
May 29th, 2008 at 12:46 pmThat won’t look good in the travel brochers
May 29th, 2008 at 12:57 pmAirbus was to stupid to have at least one pilot aboard??? I would like to hear the black box on this one… Was there a lot of alla ak barring before this crash??
May 29th, 2008 at 12:59 pmI heard a story once from my friend’s father who worked for some contractor in Saudi Arabia, that before the first Gulf War it wasn’t uncommon to see burnt out hulks of Saudi aircraft that had been ditched when some Saudi prince got squirrelly on final approach, they would punch out, and the Saudis would then just buy another.
After this article, and my own experiences in the Middle East, I am really convinced they are truly incompetent as a group. It was probably some member of the ruling family at the seats.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:02 pmThey were probably offered one from Airbus, but turned it down becuase it was a woman pilot like one that Boeing regularly uses to test the 777. That or they confused “jihad” with “etihad.”
May 29th, 2008 at 1:04 pmGoodnight and good luck
May 29th, 2008 at 1:07 pm“Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Moslem Arabs. ”
But the stories of using children or people with disabilities as suicide bombers doesn’t bother them. Holding mass rallies where they all chant their mantra, death to Israel, death to America, death to anyone not as stupid and backwards as us, isn’t embarrassing to them? God help the people that can’t look in the mirror and see it’s themselves who are ruining their image in the world.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:21 pmHa! Ha! The French have engineered all kinds of safeguards in their planes to prevent pilot mistakes. Sometimes they over do it. Oui?
I still think it was stupid enigneering. You gotta be able to make a high power runup without listening to that very loud horn the whole time
Most airlines and aircraft manufacturers have mechanics who are fully qualified to start and taxi aircraft. Nothing new here. Someone raised the question about whether the manual makes a point about the feature of releasing the brakes when the c/b was pulled–or a caution about pulling that circuit breaker.
French and Arabs–the gang who can’t shoot straight. Love it.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:08 pmIt’s insulting to Arabs because it shows why they are an incompitent bunch of 7th century peons. They’re good at two things: murder and suicide. Everything else is either copied or lied about.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:17 pmremember,one or two generations ago, none of them ever went faster than a camel runs.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:29 pmYou mean, faster than a camel with the runs.
Taht does not look like a survivable crash for the crew.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:56 pmJust goes to show that “PULL UP” is not in the Arab vocabulary. Wasn’t in the vocab in 2001, and it isn’t today.
“accident”
May 29th, 2008 at 3:33 pmJust proves my contention that arabs are inbred retards who should stay back in the 7th century, out of the way of the civilized world.
May 29th, 2008 at 4:09 pmNice story with a happy ending. Stupid goat fuckers got messed up.
May 29th, 2008 at 4:09 pmSheesh, you just can’t make this up
May 29th, 2008 at 4:32 pmHAHAHA! Three Stooges meet Mohammed. I think I once said that Muslims are truly good at one thing: destruction. ‘Nuff said.
May 29th, 2008 at 4:55 pmWhat I’d give to hear the tower’s communications
May 29th, 2008 at 5:52 pm