Whoops
Filed Under (Amazing, News, Painful Forwards, People Doing Stupid Funny Things) by The King of Funny Forwards on 21-05-2009
Tags: Airbus crashes into wall
This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600,
one of the largest passenger airplane ever built,
sits just outside it’s hangar in Toulouse, France,
without a single hour of airtime on the clock….

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 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 take-off 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.)

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

See what happens after the break
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