Etihad 346 damaged in TLS: Report
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Etihad 346 damaged in TLS: Report
The report (in French...) can be found here.
What we've learned:
- Run-up test was performed at high ENG thrust setting on 4 engines to detect an oil leak (procedural violation)
- No chocks in place (procedural violation)
- Braking system was normally operative giving full efficiency
- 3 technicians in the cockpit, 1 AI tech on the right performing the test, 1 GAMCO tech on the left as a client observer only, 1 AI flight test engineer (A320, ATR42 type rated though), observer as well on a J/S.
- 6 other people, in the cabin.
What happened:
During run-up, A/C started to move due to:
-high vibrations
-decrease of GW due to fuel burn during test (1270 kgs)
-slight brake pressure decrease on one wheel
Gamco technician noticed that first and spoke out.
AI technician focused on an altn braking problem and deactivated the park brake while pressing the pedals (not enough in a first stage...) to recover normal braking.
As the A/C continued moving, AI tech tried to steer the A/C to the right to avoid the wall...doing so, he inhibited braking on central wheels.
A/C accelerated, 4 to 31 kts in 7 sec.
About 2 sec before impact, the engineer on the rear J/S retarted the THR levers to idle.
That's facts.
That was just to give a reply to that racist story we read about this event.
So long'
What we've learned:
- Run-up test was performed at high ENG thrust setting on 4 engines to detect an oil leak (procedural violation)
- No chocks in place (procedural violation)
- Braking system was normally operative giving full efficiency
- 3 technicians in the cockpit, 1 AI tech on the right performing the test, 1 GAMCO tech on the left as a client observer only, 1 AI flight test engineer (A320, ATR42 type rated though), observer as well on a J/S.
- 6 other people, in the cabin.
What happened:
During run-up, A/C started to move due to:
-high vibrations
-decrease of GW due to fuel burn during test (1270 kgs)
-slight brake pressure decrease on one wheel
Gamco technician noticed that first and spoke out.
AI technician focused on an altn braking problem and deactivated the park brake while pressing the pedals (not enough in a first stage...) to recover normal braking.
As the A/C continued moving, AI tech tried to steer the A/C to the right to avoid the wall...doing so, he inhibited braking on central wheels.
A/C accelerated, 4 to 31 kts in 7 sec.
About 2 sec before impact, the engineer on the rear J/S retarted the THR levers to idle.
That's facts.
That was just to give a reply to that racist story we read about this event.
So long'
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I received the same widely circulated email from a few friends a couple of weeks ago, the fact was as twisted as the writer. Even the first sentence can tell you that the writer was born in the late 90's.
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This is one of the emails
Quoate:
It certainly pays to read the instruction manual's first!
THE TALE OF THE ARAB FLIGHT CREW
Written by To The Point News
Friday, 16 May 2008
The brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger airplane ever built, sat in its hangar in Toulouse , France without a single hour of airtime.
Enter the Arab flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as engine runups, 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 takeoff but it 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 Arab 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, totaling it.
The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown, for there has been a news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere. Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Moslem Arabs. Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.
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Quoate:
It certainly pays to read the instruction manual's first!
THE TALE OF THE ARAB FLIGHT CREW
Written by To The Point News
Friday, 16 May 2008
The brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger airplane ever built, sat in its hangar in Toulouse , France without a single hour of airtime.
Enter the Arab flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as engine runups, 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 takeoff but it 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 Arab 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, totaling it.
The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown, for there has been a news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere. Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Moslem Arabs. Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.
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