Nice crash barrier, though ...

[Paul1953]

These are pictures of the wreck of a brand new A340-600, in November 2007, that had never flown. Brand spanking new right out of the hanger, without a single hour of air time.

Enter the Arab flight crew. Thank the French and their Arab friends for this
bit of 'comedy of errors'. Nine employees of the Arab airline were in the aircraft, but not one employee from French Airbus was present. The pilots taxied out to the run-up area.Then they took all four engines to takeoff power with virtually an empty aircraft.This was their first mistake as they obviously didn't read the run-up manuals.They had no clue just how light an empty air bus really is. No chocks were set, not that it would have mattered at that powersetting. The brakes will not hold it back
at full power anyway. As it turns out, 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 ithad not been configured properly (flaps/slats, etc, etc).

Then one of these brain surgeons decided to pull the 'Ground Sense'circuit breaker to silence the alarms. This fools the aircraft into thinking it is in the air. That was their last mistake. As soon as they did that, the computers automatically released all the brakes and set the aircraft rocketing forward. The poor bastards had no idea that this is a safety feature so that pilots can't land with the brakes on. There was no time to stop and no one smart enough to throttle back the engines from their max power setting. So the rest is as you see it below.

Of Note: No one is talking and it didn't make the main stream media
so who knows if there were survivors.

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[Paul1953]

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[rdamurphy]

Ah, it appears we have more nominees for this year's Darwin Awards!

Robert

[Erick_Cantu]

Wrong!

Four of the people on board were in fact Airbus staff. The aircraft had been running at that RPM level without any motion, with the parking brakes set, for 3 minutes. The engines were not at full power. When the aircraft started to move, brakes were applied. The big failure was that nobody retarded the throttles until 2 seconds before impact. The brakes were just not powerful enough to hold the plane back at 80% on all four. There were no fatalities.

The primary causes of the accident were failure to do it right (runups are generally done one engine at a time) and the fact that the aircraft was pointed at a blast fence instead of an open area.

[rdamurphy]

Funny you should use the word "retarded..." ;)

Robert

[shadowr434]

That was ugly.

[Erick_Cantu]

Not as ugly as the "LEFT WING!" The "RIGHT WING" only suffered minor dents, bruises, and the wrath of an angry senior citizen.

[Andy J]

Not as ugly as the "LEFT WING!" The "RIGHT WING" only suffered minor dents, bruises, and the wrath of an angry senior citizen.

O god, another thread locked... :rolleyes:

[Kenny1234]

Not to worry. The transfer of oil-related wealth from us to them will buy them another one. When they make as much as they do off of us, they can afford much more elaborate thrills than we can.

[rd4man]

This story and photos were posted on the Internet shortly after it happened and I asked the question then: "Why were they making a 'run-up', to check the mags?"