unidentified origin. So, true or not ?
Nine employees of the xxx airline were in the aircraft, but 'no
> > employees' from Airbus were present.
> >
> > The xxx taxied out to the run-up area.
> >
> > Then they took all four engines to takeoff power with virtually an empty
> > aircraft. (They obviously 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.
> > Th e aircraft computers thought they were trying to takeoff but it had
> > not been configured properly (flaps/slats, etc, etc).
> >
> > Then one of these xxx 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 thought to
> > reduce
> > the max power setting.....
> >
> > So the rest is xxx.
> >
> > No one is talking, so who knows if there were survivors.