From: “Chuck Jones” <CJones@EADS.com>
To: “Paul Cunningham (E-mail)” <PCunningham@united.com>
Subject: A340 600
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:32:42 -0700
Subject: A340 600
These are pictures of the wreck of a brand new A340-600 in November
2007, that had never flown. (never saw (1) hour in the air). Thank
these French and their Arab friends for this bit of "comedy of errors".
Nine employees of the Arab airline were in the aircraft, but "no
employees" from Airbus were present.
They taxied out to the run-up area. Then they took all four
engines to takeoff power with virtually an empty aircraft. (They obvious
didn't read the run-up manuals.) No chocks were set, (not that it would
have mattered at that power setting) .. Brakes will not hold it back at
full power anyway.
As it turns out the takeoff warning horn was blaring away in the cockpit
because they had all FOUR engines at full power. The aircraft computers
thought they were trying to takeoff but it had not been configured
properly (flaps/slats, etc, etc). Then one of these brain surgeons
decided to pull the "Ground Sense" circuit breaker to quiet the alarms.
This fools the aircraft into thinking it is in the air."A big,big mistake"!
As soon as they did that, the computers automaticlly "released" all the
brakes. ("this is a Safety feature so that pilots don't land with the
brakes on".), there was no time to stop and no one smart enough to think
of reducing the max power setting.....
So the rest is as you see it in the photos.
No one is talking, so who knows if there were survivors or who cares.
