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New Airbus......$200,000,000

Crew Training...$2,000,000

Aircraft prep.....$200,000

Totalling that puppy without ever getting close to a runway....

.......you know it!.....

PRICELESS!!!






A 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 flight crew to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as engine run-ups prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi .

The 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 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 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 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.









Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.




Airbus $200 million aircraft meets retaining wall, and the wall wins!

wow, some 'crew'. I don't think they had any business 'testing' an aircraft without sufficient knowledge, training, and experience.

I got this in an e-mail today from an old friend.

"How contrived", indeed...

I did not even think of Snopes!

So this is the 2nd time an Airbus Has done this in the test phase, both do to human error.  They really need to not let the people get in the plane until delivery to that country, then they can brake it there.

There's a pic of this on airliners.net...picture taken on November 16th 2007. No exact details of what happened apart from that it jumped its chocks during engine tests the day before...but still, if what you posted is true about the crew (not saying it's you're theory alone ) , then um...woops!

Alec

[quote]So this is the 2nd time an Airbus Has done this in the test phase, both do to human error.

I've known some auto plant test drivers that smooshed cars right off the line on the testrack.  But this is off the chain if it happened twice!

I'm jus' sayin'! :-/

I have to say whoever has the time to create and circulate these e-mails needs a real job.  It clearly has some biased language and inaccurate information



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I didn't put it on here to offend anyone.

[quote][quote]So this is the 2nd time an Airbus Has done this in the test phase, both do to human error.

"Not so sure it was stupidity that caused the buffalo accident."

I said "training or braining".  But it looks like the 'combo-platter', BOTH!

If the first reaction is to pull back on the yoke in a situation like they were presented, as compared to denting the dashboard slamming the throttles forward while pushing for nose down, then I'd say my guesstimation may hold water.

Lack of a vital "something" led to that catastrophically inapropriate response.  The fatigue and pay issues look to me to be rather moot points.  IMHO.

[quote]"Not so sure it was stupidity that caused the buffalo accident."

I said "training or braining".

[quote]I have to say whoever has the time to create and circulate these e-mails needs a real job.