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Read the operating manual before you touch anything !
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Friday, �16 May 2008 �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.�Airbus $200 million aircraft meets retaining wall and the wall �wins....
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�The Score:�Airbus Plane 0, Wall 1.

�Ed.