Here's another one...... Just stupid!!! Wilton, you will get a kick out of this one......!!!! Chuck Don't know if the pix will get thru....... > > > > THE TALE OF THE ARAB FLIGHT CREW > > Written by To The Point News > > Friday, 16 May 2008 > > > The brand spanking new Airbus 380-600, the largest passenger > airplane ever > built, sat in its hangar inToulouse, 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 > runu ps, > prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi. > > The ADAT crew taxied the A380-600 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 > A380-600 > 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 ala rm. 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, 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. > Airbus $200 > million aircraft meets retai ning wall and the wall wins.... > >  >  >  > 
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