Heard from a senior insider at Toulouse "they did everything wrong, ran all 4engines at 80% max power for engine run up instead of one at a time, overloaded parking brakes, pointed the aircraft at a building instead of towards open areas, after it got away on the brakes it was allowed to run and accelerate uncorrected for 13 seconds, finally engines throttles were closed and power reduced 2 seconds prior to impact, by then it was too late - aircraft total write off police investigation continues as is standard procedure in France".
Last edited by Wizard; 25th Dec 2007 at 21:05.
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