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Brand
spanking new right out of the hanger, without
a single hour of air
time. Enter the Arab flight crew.
Nine employees of the Arab airline were in the
aircraft, but not one
employee from French Airbus was present.
The Arabs taxied out to the run-up area. Then
they took all four engines to
takeoff power with a virtually empty aircraft.
This was their first mistake,
as they obviously didn't read the run-up manuals.
They had no clue just how light of an empty
A340-600 really is. No chocks were set, not
that it would have mattered at that power setting.
The brakes and chocks together would
not hold it back at full power anyway.
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 these brain surgeons 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.
That was a big mistake. As soon as they did
that, the computers
automatically released all the brakes and set
the aircraft rocketing
forward.
The poor dudes had no idea that this is a SAFETY
feature so that
pilots can't land with the brakes on. There
was no one onboard smart enough
to throttle back the engines from their max
power setting, so the rest is as
you see.
Of Note:
No one is talking and it didn't make the main
stream media so who knows if
there were survivors. Not surprising
since the main stream media is so afraid of
insulting anyone-
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Wrecked - Brand new A340-600