Rec'd an email. These photos were in it with soem text.
Wasn't inquisitive enough to check it out, but did smile!


OOPS!
This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, sits just outside 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 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 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 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, totaling it.

The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown due to the
news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere.

Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Arabs.

Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.

A French Airbus. $200 million dollars
Untrained Arab Flight Crew $300,000 Yearly Salary
Unread Operating Manual... $300

AIRCRAFT MEETS RETAINING WALL -- WALL WINS
PRICELESS!

"Lee" <NULL> wrote in message
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> Rec'd an email. These photos were in it with soem text.
> Wasn't inquisitive enough to check it out, but did smile!
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> OOPS!



Yep, this is one of those stories that refuses to die. It might be all
true or all BS, nobody's going to know for sure.


Check ...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/etihad.asp

....for more info.



--


Cheers

Dave Kearton

There are quite a few problems with the story as reported in the email
version.

First, most of the interior pictures used are actually designs for the
Airbus A380. You can see them at this link:

http://www.aviationexplorer.com/a380_facts.htm

Second, the facts presented in the email don't entirely mesh with the
accident report. You can find info on that, including the accident
report itself, at the link below. However, the accident report, as
would be expected, is in French. Unfortunately, my high school
"Francaise est tres mal", so I can only glean a bit of what it is
saying. Perhaps someone else could tell us what the findings are.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20071115-0

Lastly, the accident was widely reported, more so in Europe than in
the U.S. You can still Google a load of the original articles dated
just days after the accident.

However, one point does seem to be in agreement - somebody forgot to
properly engage brain before proceding with the tests. When doing
ground runs, we always chocked, blocked and stood on the brakes. And
if we were going to run up to full mil, we towed the whole mess to the
trim pad where it was cabled to the ground or locked in to anchored
steel chocks.

Frogdog has left the building.

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As real as this one from a US genius
http://discity.com/kc135/

A few more pictures... All credit to original poster of PowerPoint
file.

Sorry if attachment screws up. I don't post very often.






On 21 Oct 2009 02:23:33 GMT, Lee <NULL> wrote:

>
>
>Rec'd an email. These photos were in it with soem text.
>Wasn't inquisitive enough to check it out, but did smile!
>
>
>OOPS!
>This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, sits just outside 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 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 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 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, totaling it.
>
>The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown due to the
>news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere.
>
>Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Arabs.
>
>Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.
>
>A French Airbus. $200 million dollars
>Untrained Arab Flight Crew $300,000 Yearly Salary
>Unread Operating Manual... $300
>
>AIRCRAFT MEETS RETAINING WALL -- WALL WINS
>PRICELESS!
>
>
>
>
>
>

Whats also interesting about this story is the suggestion that somehow the
arab crew are a bunch of monkeys who are completely overawed by this western
technology. Reading the report it seems as though both the ground and flight
crew were at fault to some degree but the less formal description reads more
like a 19th century description of the native africans. Yes yes those silly
arabs. Lets not forget some of the French activities, their covering over of
the details of the concorde crash are well known, how about their habit of
conducting industrial espionage at charles de gaulle airport or their losing
a bomb at muraroa atoll.

their losing
> a bomb at muraroa atoll.
>
>
And the two US one in Palomares
Or overflying CONUS with a full nuclear loaded B-52 ....
PTMDR

Positively right.

That's why a pilot is not an engineer and an engineer not a pilot!

A pilot!



"Lee" <NULL> a écrit dans le message news:
...
>
>
> Rec'd an email. These photos were in it with soem text.
> Wasn't inquisitive enough to check it out, but did smile!
>
>
> OOPS!
> This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, sits just outside 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 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 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 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, totaling it.
>
> The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown due to the
> news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere.
>
> Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Arabs.
>
> Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.
>
> A French Airbus. $200 million dollars
> Untrained Arab Flight Crew $300,000 Yearly Salary
> Unread Operating Manual... $300
>
> AIRCRAFT MEETS RETAINING WALL -- WALL WINS
> PRICELESS!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

In article >, Lee <NULL>
wrote:

> Rec'd an email. These photos were in it with soem text.
> Wasn't inquisitive enough to check it out, but did smile!
>
>
> OOPS!
> This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, sits just outside 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 run-ups
> prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi . The ADAT crew
> taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area.
>

That there was an accident is true. The text of he email is bull****,
written by someone who dislikes Arabs. Among other facts left out of the
email story: the control inputs were coming from the right seat, in
which sat an Airbus employee who was responsible for the text.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/etihad.asp

For those on this group who can read French:
http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2007/f-cj071115/pdf/f-cj071115.pdf

An English translation:
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/300539-brand-new-etihad-a340-600-damag
ed-toulouse-several-wounded-26.html#post4705627