Tuesday, May 19, 2009

As Super Brit would say, "read the bloody damn instructons!!!!"

This 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 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

This story has been out for a few months and some of you may have seen it before, but it is too good not to share. You may think it has nothing to do with animals, but I disagree, because if you have never had the insane pleasure of watching a monkey try to hump a football, this will give you a pretty good idea of their success. As for blacking it out, as it was "deemed insulting to Muslim Arabs", I say if they are trying so hard to jamb their foot into that shoe, just let them wear it!!!!!!

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