Somebody have landed an A340-600 with the Parking brake ON?
when? where? Who?

Don't you get an ECAM alert if you try to set the parking brake in the air on the 'bus?

Cannot do it on ours without lots of funny lights popping up on the EICAS!

Is this what you mean?
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/1050502/M/
Not sure how it happened or circumstances.

Following landing and approaching the high speed exit, understand someone reached for the Taxi Camera, but got the Park Brake instead. Location similar, but shape very different. Read a quote associating 70kts with the incident.

Thank You Tom!
It appear to me that she was on the runway. I heard exactely the story of the wrong switch.

How thay have misunderstod/ confuse the action to turn a switch to a "pull up and turn 90 degree clochwise" action required by the Parking brake is only a chinese mistery.
Anyway, Apparently Airbus offered to paid for the damage and promptly remouve the Camera switch in another location (at list in the A380 Cockpit layout)

Negative . No ECAM alert .

on my sim if you set the parking brake you get no aural ecam but definetely you get an ecam message. I have tried last night wile ferring my angry paxengers o Kaohsiung. cheer!

I know a fellow pilot who set the parking brake of his 737 in flight and wasn`t able to release it afterwards.
He declared an emergency , prepared the cabin , fire fighting equipment waiting for his landing , and.......when he turned final and set the landing gear down the parking brake released by itself.

The end of the story you imagine....

And another story of a guy in FK-27 who ser L/G lever UP on ground to prove to his cop.that nothing would hapen. This time it hapened.One main strut came up....

I definetely believe there are things you can not even touch whe you are not required to....
Just leave it there or do it in the sim....

Good flights....without experiences...

China Eastern

Incredible picture!!!

What are the yellow bags?

Don't know but very good centreline tracking.....

Maybe the plane was shopping at netto

They just might have a few people at the field who would want to move the aircraft without wondering why it is there........... I joke not.

Said yellow bags (one would hope), draw attention.

I believe the bags facilitate the collection and storage of the 'guilty party's' somewhat shattered 'ego'

Not familiar with Airbus parking brake system but every aircraft I operated on, both brake pedals had to be fully depressed before the parking brake lever could be set. In addition, a parking brake indicator and an anti skid hydraulic light indicator would illuminate; apart from enabling the voice recorder bulk erase cicuit. All this on a steam driven classic. Hard to belive that Airbus systems would be inferior to this standard.

so then, coul it be an antiskid (ABS ) malfunction?
loking 12 breaks simultaneously is quite a rare even.

Ice probably?

On an Airbus you just have to turn the handle and the parking brake is on.

This system is electrical and the operation you are talking about is true for a mechanical system.

On the A 320s I flew, the only indication would be that the park brake memo was on the ECAM but it was amber. No need to touch the brake pedals to set the parking brake on an airbus.