MAKE THE MENTAL IMAGES GO AWAY!!!
MAKE THE MENTAL IMAGES GO AWAY!!!
SourceDon't let these people borrow your car. . .
This new Airbus A340-600, one of the largest passenger airliners
ever built sits just outside its hangar in Toulouse, France
without a single hour of airtime.
Enter the 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 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 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 ADAT
The photos are starting to leak out.
Airbus $200,000,000.00 Nice.
lol.
Lol. Indian drivers.
Seriously, though, that's just rage-inducing. Such a waste. >__<
A car? Those guys shouldn't be allowed near anything that has any wheels and/or can move.
They fucked up. Big time.
Last edited by sdavis117; May 26th, 2009 at 08:07 PM.
holly fucking shit XD
"dam man this thing keeps fucking beeping at me, somehting about safety or proper use or someshit, really fuckign annoying"
"i think it comes from this cord, should i yank it"
"fuck yeah man yank that shit, fuckign stupid things annoying as fuck"
and that my friend is how you waste 200 million dollars.
Last edited by LesserOf2Evils; May 29th, 2009 at 12:44 AM.
HAHAHAHAHAHOriginally Posted by OmegaDragon
I lol'dConstruction Crew Severs Secret ‘Black Line’
A construction crew working on an office building in Virginia in 2000 severed a fiber optic cable that wasn’t on anyone’s map. Apparently it was a ‘black line’ used for carrying secret intelligence data, according to sources who spoke recently with the Washington Post.
Within minutes of cutting the cable, three black SUV’s pulled up carrying men in suits who complained that their line was severed.
“The construction manager was shocked,” a worker told the Washington Post. “He had never seen a line get cut and people show up within seconds. Usually you’ve got to figure out whose line it is. To garner that kind of response that quickly was amazing.”
AT&T crews arrived the same day to fix the line, an unusually prompt response. When AT&T tried to bill the construction company $300,000, the company balked and the charges “just disappeared.”
The cut occurred in the Tysons Corner region, where the neighbors include the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Counterterrorism Center. The Central Intelligence Agency is a few miles away.
Tysons is also home to a site belonging to the Warrenton Training Center, a communications training center and support facility for the National Communications System that is suspected of handling some communication for the CIA.
There are currently 4 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 4 guests)
Posting Permissions
Bookmarks