All their money but no brains
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> *OOPS**!*
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> *This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, one of the
> largest passenger airplanes 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 inAbu Dhabi ..
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> *The ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area.
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> 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..*
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> *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..)
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> *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.
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> Not one member of the seven-man Arab crew was smart
> enough to throttle back the engines from their max
> power setting, so the $350 million brand-new aircraft
> crashed into a blast barrier, totaling it.
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> *The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown due to
> the news blackout in the major media in France and
> elsewhere. Because........
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> *Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Muslim
> Arabs.*
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> *Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.
> **..*
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> *One French Airbus: $350 million dollars
> Untrained Arab Flight Crew: $300,000 Yearly Salary
> Unread Operating Manual: $300
> Aircraft meets retaining wall and the wall wins.
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> **PRICELESS!!!
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> "And that's why Their God gave them camels"!*
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> *HAVE A GREAT DAY...........*
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