Haha those whacky Arab pilots.
 

The brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger airplane ever built, 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 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 takeoff 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, 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.

http://www.livecamnetwork.com/bbs-pictures/airbus.jpg

OMG!!! That's horrible!!! :geez:

Wow what a fuckup!! There did seem to be alot of references to Arabs though.

This is gonna sound really bad..... But I sometimes wonder about how smart other races are.

(Please note I'm on a lot of pain medication tonight. )

I'm not saying Americans are the smartest race in the world or anything, but I'm a huge WWII fan and it always strikes me as funny when I read about how Japan thought they were better than everyone else. I mean, just in physical size we dwarfed them.

I don't think the Arabs are that smart. I've read a lot about Iraq and how they live there; Their largest cities don't have modern sewage.

And then you have Dubai..... Come on.... It's pretty fucking pointless to be building such shit in the desert. You just now it's gonna get bombed.

Rochard.... I can't believe how short-sighted your post is. It sounds precisely how you described the Japanese attitude pre-WWII man.... think about it.

As for the airbus accident.... all I can say is DAMN.

Rochard, all I have to say about your post is ROFL. And I will laugh at everyone that says that japanees are not smart. Ah, and I'm sure you are using only american made stuff, nothing from Japan or other 3rd world countries.

Holy crap. That looks pretty ugly.

damn what a mess, not the brightest pilots out there that's for sure!!

Yeah you're right. It sounded really bad.