$ 200 Million aircraft -

 $ 200 Million aircraft -

OOPS !

This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger airplane 

ever built, sits just outside 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

 


















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.

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.

Finally, the photos are starting to leak out. . 

One French Airbus: $200 million dollars

Untrained Arab Flight Crew: $300,000 Yearly Salary

Unread Operating Manual: $300

Aircraft meets retaining wall and the wall wins. PRICELESS!!!

"And that's why God gave them camels"!