Jul
08
First Airbus Crash
If I needed reminding that I should no longer adhere to the maxim, "If all else fails - read the instruction book," this is it. Apparently ignored by the main stream media, here are some photos of the first A340-600 Airbus crash in Toulouse, France. Der Spiegel reported it when it happened, but that was about it 
Lissie, who writes about budget four wheel drive travel in Australia (amongst other things) emailed me about this asking if it was true.
These are pictures of the wreck of a brand new Airbus A340-600, in November 2007, that had never flown. Brand spanking new right out of the hangar, without a single hour of air time.
Enter the Arab flight crew. Thank the French and their Arab friends for this bit of 'comedy of errors'. Nine employees of the Arab airline were in the aircraft, but not one employee from French Airbus was present. The Arabs taxied out to the run-up area. Then they took all four engines to takeoff power with virtually an empty aircraft.
This was their first mistake as they obviously didn't read the run-up manuals. They had no clue just how light an empty Air bus really is. No chocks were set, not that it would have mattered at that power setting. The 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 4 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 silence the alarms.
This fools the aircraft into thinking it is in the air.That was their last mistake. As soon as they did that, the computers automaticlly released all the brakes and set the aircraft rocketing forward.They had no idea that this is a Safety feature so that pilots can't land with the brakes on. There was no time to stop and no one smart enough to throttle back the engines from their max power setting.
10 people were injured in this farce, 3 of them seriously.
So the rest is as you see it below.
“Bet they won’t let an inexperienced crew drive an empty one again”
Only a fully loaded one.
So the moral of the story is that you can only report the truth if the guilty parties are/were white Americans?
But, then, I’d hate to see my name in the papers/online for stupidly crashing a brand new kagillion buck airliner!
Then again, it’s pretty stupid to blow yourself and others up over religion or politics!
Party on, dudes!
Stupid Americans Airbus is not french is european.The airbus is produced in Germany,Spain,England and assambled in france just near to the border of Spain……
All the us industries are going down, the dollar,general motors,crysler,ford,boing patetic country………soon usa will pass by Europe,China and others,ja,ja…
Well, I have a feeling the disasters at VW, Porsche, Land Rover Jaguar, UBS, the collapse of the Spanish economy and goodness knows how many other upcoming European failures are going to put us not far behind,. ;(
Look at what you guys are saying. It’s a simple air crash for god’s sake. Why do we have to bring in Muslims and Arabs in the conversation then start linking them to terrorists?
Terrorists exist all around the globe and from every country. These guys have no religion. It’s unfair to accuse a whole nation of being TERRORIST because of the actions of one or 2 or even 10 people.
And to the Ignorant person who said “THAT’S WHY GOD GAVE THEM CAMELS”. I THINK YOU ARE THE MOST UNEDUCATED PERSON ON EARTH. Go visit the Arab countries and then tell me if it’s full of Camels. Do you read history at all? Civilization has started from that region centuries before you are born. But I guess you don’t read and brain washed with all the media.
Take some time to open your eyes and watch this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501
As an American, this vedeo was shocking. Watch it then talk.
@William White:
A buddy of mine ex B52 driver was chief instructor on L-1011′s at Iranian Airlines, said you could teach monkeys how to fly easier than the Iranians. These guys should never be allowed in the air
LOL
That is funny – now I am going to be attacked for being racist again though.
Iranians are Persians, not Arabs, so it isn’t racist! The Iranian leadership are, however, morons!
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I have been a commercial pilot for over 30 years. I was there when this crash happened. The aircraft was due to be delivered to the customer, Etihad Airways on the following day. The aircraft is an Airbus A340-600, a stretched version of the Airbus A340-300. The aircraft was crewed by Engineers and Maintenance technicians, and not pilots. The aircraft was taken out on an engine run for engine validation checks, which usually takes about 3 hours to perform. This involves running the engines at different thrust ratings, and at times taking them to maximum static thrust. Somehow the brakes on the aircraft failed causing the Airbus to leap forward and crashing into the blast deflector fence. Normal procedures for high thrust power runs require the main gear to be chained down to the tarmac, to prevent this type of accident.
Luckily, there were no deaths from this accident. Just some bruised ego and scars.
Thanks Aero. Any idea why the press releases just vanished? Glad to hear there were no deaths. Makes it more OK to laugh at.
I never saw an airbus crash before anyway the plane was too long for the short runway(maybe)but I’m sure that it would fly in airports where there are longer runways also why did they put a wall there?it would have flown if there wasn’t a wall there(I’m not really sure about the sentence I said just now)and acutually that was the HQ of Airbus!Anyway when I saw that I really don’t fell like riding airbus anymore but I liked the Airbus A380!I rode it twice before and it was my best day ever because my flight was from Hong Kong to France and back(I’m not Chinese!I’m an American living in Hong Kong and I just spent the holidays in France the back to school in Hong Kong!)
If it was a BOEING it wouldnt look that bad and you could fly it again……….
LOL I doubt that. It hit that wall pretty hard.
@Gary: I read somewhere that no American (or anybody else for that matter) has ever walked on the moon and that the moon landing in 1969 was just a hoax.
Sorry to spoil your fun you all, but although an Ethiad representative (from Abu Dhabi Aircraft Tech) was indeed in the left seat, the sole manipulator of the controls was a French Airbus technician sitting in the right seat. The left seat occupant was the one who first noticed the aircraft was moving and called out.
Furthermore I live in France, and I did learn about this incident on the newscast of French public television (FR2) at the time it happened. So there was no cover-up. The chain of events referred on this site is bogus. The only truth to it is that such an accident did happen.
For those interested in the true story, the French NTSB’s report can be found here: http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2007/f-cj071115/pdf/f-cj071115.pdf (in French). A translation of the report into English can be found at http://blog.flightstory.net/418/airbus-a340-600-ground-test-accident/ (look for a comment posted Jun 2nd, 2009 at 12:41 am)
French, Arab, Martian. Does it matter to the story which race was in charge? It’s inflammatory.
Although I suppose that if it WERE Martian, there would be some preconceived notion that they would be good pilots, what with space travel and all. But I suppose that might be my racial bias coming out.
it does not come down to race. airbus have had so many crashes recently when pilots appear unable to manage the craft. airbus 447 and today’s 12th may flight from south africa to gatwick. also a flight ditched in the indian ocean. the huddson river miracle was also an airbus. there is a smoking gun. maybe there should be more concern over the aircraft safety which is a far bigger issue than the race of those flying. who cares what race the pilots are when hundreds have died on airbus craft!
Airbus have unanswered questions especially the A330 !!!
Maybe the fly by wire is too hi-tec and if there is a problem the response
by pilots is not fast enough due to complexity of aircraft!
Airbus have unanswered questions especially the A330 !!!
Maybe the fly by wire is too hi-tech and if there is a problem the response
by pilots is not fast enough due to complexity of aircraft!
@ciaran kelly: Of all the different oppinions and speculations as to what may or may not have been the cause of A330s’ track record, yours is the most compelling.
It’s possible something has been overlooked, perhaps something quite simple, like the square windows that brought down passenger plans in the past.
@William White:
I wonder if you are referring to the pilots who flew into the world trade centre?otherwise this is characteristic of White men to think they are the most competent people ever conceived.I am sure the two jumbos which crashed on the Runway , one of which was KLM, were being flown by pilots influenced by Arab Pilots.
The Chivalry of White Pilots is Legendary , Ask a KID!
@Vacation Packing Tips: This is why they ride camels or walk…..
Arabs can’t fly, unless they are hijacking them!!
Looks like a very expensive comedy of errors. Having worked around jet engine performance checks,i can tell you that you need your wheel chocks in place,and you had better have the aircraft chained down at full thrust. It doesn’t matter who was at the controls,the required checklist was not followed. These people were not qualified to be at the controls,period!
Please grow out of the camels and monkeys crap
it was a white man who smashed the emirates jet,because he pulled out the circuit breaker warning parking brakes on with full power.the aircraft computers then sensed an in flight condition and disabled the brakes.result what you see up there
lets call a white spade a spade it was an engineer doing a static grond run and not a white or arab pilot
as pilots learn chivalry and respect another pilot
Actually arabs can fly….they just have problems with landings!
LOL @Av8or!
After seeing these pictures, I’m afraid to fly again much so flying with an Arab crew.
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Years ago I spent some time teaching a crew in Saudi Arabia to fly an early Hawker. They told me when they were ready to fly, and on their first flight got lost, landed in the desert.
When they finally showed up no one said a word about what had happened. Apparently they ran out of fuel, finally got some, and brought the bird home.
Glad to get out of there in one piece.
Best pilots in the world come from the good old USA.
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Dude write about something else not aviation or rather get yourself sources like Aero (reliable and well informed).
Spectacular photos and detailed explanation of the comedy of errors of the first airbus crash.
Makes you wonder if there was some Jewish involvement. Although that’s unlikely
@Edward:
Edward, thank god there are still civilized people like you on this planet. The racists here need to take a good long look at themselves in the mirror, you’ll see how pathetic you all are.
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can’t make a silk purse from a sows ear.There is a difference in do’ing and knowing what you’r doing!!
I’m getting this Comedy Act a little Late as this is 5 May 2012…
These WILD and Crazy ARABS.. Just wanted to show the World….
“DON’T EVER EVEN THINK ABOUT FLYING WITH AN ARAB CREW” !!!!!!!
EVER…EVER…EVER…EVER…EVER
That’s why God gave them camels
its too sad about this crash.its happen may be due to some small problem