Airbus $200,000,000.00 FAIL...umm well okay so more like Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies EPIC FAIL!! haha

So, coverage of this news event is insulting to the ADAT?

Makes you think twice about the competency of crews when you see this happening during the debut of this obscenely large and expensive aircraft.

The pictures of this are really spectacular and I recommend having a look.

http://kevintren.posterous.com/dont-let-these-people-borrow-your-car

Here is another link to info on this really amazingly incompetent job the flight crew did. EPIC FAIL pics included. http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/etihad.asp

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April 14, 2009
Don't let these people borrow your car. . .

This new Airbus A340-600, one of the largest passenger airliners
ever built sits just outside its hangar in Toulouse, France
without a single hour of airtime.

Enter the 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 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.

WOW yeah they really should learn to read the manuals!!

Wowza.


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

They should fly flight simulators, FSX teaches that.

Like in Project X?



Poor monkeys.