Arab Airbus.....priceless

[FishingCop]

Russ posted for me - see below.

Thanks Russ

 

[DocWatson]

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/127d50ee2a8d6f4b

You can't link to an email. :roll:

 

[FishingCop]

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/127d50ee2a8d6f4b

You can't link to an email. :roll:

Bummer - can't figure out any other way to copy the pictures and text

 

[perchin]

Just take a screenshot, save the screenshot. If it saves in a wierd format, then right click on the screenshot and open with paint, from there just save it as a jpeg. Then upload it to this forum.

 

[DocWatson]

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/127d50ee2a8d6f4b

You can't link to an email. :roll:

Bummer - can't figure out any other way to copy the pictures and text

The screenshot is the easiest way. Everything else requires extra work.

I use Handysnap for screenshots. It's Shareware, but the last freeware version is available here

 

[FishingCop]

This was one of those stories that has several pictures and story lines between. It is pretty long, so a screen shot wouldn't capture the entire story. No big deal, I just gave up trying to post it....

 

[russ010]

posted....

 

[russ010]

This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600,
the longest passenger airplane ever built,
sits just outside its hangar in Toulouse,
France without a single hour of air time.



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 Muslim 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,
and the wall wins.
PRICELESS!!!


"that's why God gave them camels"!