Learning to FLY the hard way!

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This Brand New Airbus 340-600; one of the largest airplanes ever built.

Sits just outside the hangar Toulouse, France with no more than zero hours of airtime.

(NEW!)

Enter the Arab flight crew of Abu Dhabi Technologies (ADAT).

To conduct pre-delivery test on the ground.

Such as engine run-ups prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi.

A beautiful Aircraft!

The Honeymoon Suite!

There is NO Coach Class on this Flight.

My kind of style! I could bring another table and place it to the right there with my laptop.

Plus a lot of other extras to really get the job done while in route to where ever I may go!

Most beautiful way to travel for any excutive on the road.  Nice!

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Then 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 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.

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 due to the news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere

Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Muslim Arabs.

Hey anyone can make a simple mistake. Plus getting it fixed again.

Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.

Airbus $200 million aircraft meets retaining wall and the wall wins.

I sure hope they get this fixed here soon! It would be nice to fly this plane anywhere in the world today...