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Not sure on the accuracy of this:

 

 

THE TALE OF THE ARAB FLIGHT CREW

 

 

 

 

Written by To The Point News

 

 

 

Friday, 16 May 2008

 

 

 

 

 

The brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, 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 ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area. Then they took all four engines to take-off 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 take-off 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 crew thought to throttle back the engines from their max power setting, so the $200 million brand-new aircraft crashed into a blast barrier, totalling 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 Muslim Arabs. Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest pelorus32]

G'day Ian,

 

as for accuracy...certainly the incident happened, it was a brand new a/c and it was slated for Etihad. The pictures are accurate and as I understand it the a/c was a total loss.

 

As to the speculation (or otherwise) as to the actions of the flight crew leading up to the accident...who can say.

 

At the time it was said that there was at least 1 Airbus employee in the cockpit in a technical role.

 

Regards

 

Mike

 

 

[Guest disperse]

Ooopps !:hittinghead::hittinghead:

 

 

[FlyingVizsla]

Here is the research on the truth of the story by Snopes - a site dedicated to proving/disproving email stories. Their investigations on this one - a mixture of truth & fiction:

 

snopes.com: The Tale of the Arab Flight Crew

 

Sue

 

 

[winsor68]

"Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Muslim Arabs. Finally, the photos are starting to leak out."

 

Does not take a brain scientist to work out that the nature of this story... that one line sort of proves it... I guess next they will be saying it was covered up because it would be insulting to Fairy Penguins...lol lol lol

 

 

[winsor68]

You misunderstand Blackrod...I was not saying there was any cover up... I was just saying that in the typical way of these false "political correctness" stories they claim that somehow our rights (in this case the right to read about an Airbus accident) is being taken away and it is all the fault of one or another minority group... Does anyone remember how Seaworld had to stop calling there Little Penguins by the term Fairy penguins in case it was deemed offensive to homosexuals???