This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the longest passenger airplane ever built, sits just outside its hangar in Toulouse , France without a  single hour of air time. 

  

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 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, totalling it.

 



The extent of the injuries to the crew is unknown due to the

news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere.






 



Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.

A French Airbus:                            $200 million dollars

 
Untrained Flight Crew:        $300,000 Yearly Salary
Unread Operating Manual:           $300

Aircraft meets retaining wall, and the wall wins.

 

PRICELESS!!!