Arabs and French, great team-work...
This new Airbus 340-600, *the largest*
*Passenger airplane ever built**,* *sits just outside its hangar*
*In Toulouse , France without a single hour of airtime.*
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*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.*
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*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.*
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*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..)*
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*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.*
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*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.*
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*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.*
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*The extent of injuries to the* *crew is unknown due to the*
*News blackout in the* *major media in France and elsewhere.*
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*Coverage of the story was* *deemed insulting to Muslim Arabs.*
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*The photos are* *starting to leak out.*
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*Airbus $200,000,000. Nice.*
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