First Airbus Crash

A canddiate for the stupid awards that one I think! I wonder if the insurance paid out.
Lissie

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I’m with lissie.

I’ll also add that those photos are shocking.

I live near an airport and have nightmares about plane crashes, those pictures will give me some all new one’s to look forward to.

So preventable, it seems ridiculous.

It is probably the silliest crash I have ever seen. I am trying to find out how badly they were injured - but I cannot seem to find any real information.

Bet they won’t let an inexperienced crew drive an empty one again

At least that wall was there - otherwise, who knows where it would have ended up.

The incompetence of Arab air crews is legendary, ask a pilot!

Emil - True. It could have accidentally cut a swathe to Paris.

William - I will take your word for it. I have seen all the evidence I need not to ever get on a plane with an Arab crew

And how many A-380s has Etihad ordered?

Imagine had this been one!

I’m pretty sure each one of us pilots out here would feel our danglies retract upon seeing a broken A-380 in these circumstances…

Bob - Danglies retracting as I look at these pics

Probably for the better that they didn’t get off the ground.

Andrew - I am laughing at that one.

I hadn’t thought of that aspect.

http://www.aviation.com/safety/071116-etihad-airways-a340-600-incident.html

I like your version of events, even if they’re complete fiction.

Thanks. Either way, not a good outcome

Way to go, terrorists. You can’t even make it off the runway!

The plane was still at the Airbus plant in Toulouse and had not been delivered to the airline. The people who crashed this plane were French Airbus staff.

Well, that is in dispute - I am trying to ascertain the exact details. Certainly the Airbus press release contradicts the police investigation, and the original statement.

Anyone have the “real” information?

The only thing that is certain is that it was crashed, and there were injuries.

I live in Europe and did not hear anything about this in the national press (who are usually quite keen to report such things). It sounds like there has been a very effective cover-up, explaining your difficulty in getting accurate information. What about trying the relevant air investigations agency?

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Me too - I live in France not a million miles away from Toulouse, and I heard nothing on any of the news broadcasts.

Maybe some one will step in with the skinny, but for now I am going with my first report

You would have thought it would have made international news, let alone the French.

I just wanted to congratulate Mr. Knowles on writing such an effective bigot magnet of an article. You’ve really attracted mankind’s finest to share their enlightened pontifications here. Thanks for making it so apparent precisely which race of airline crew was responsible in your journalistic account of these events. You, sir, are a scholar and a peacemaker.

OUch!

Brian - I understand the flight crew was Arab. Does that fact make it a bigot magnet?

If they had been American, would you be accusing me of Anti-american behavior?

Yes, thank you - a scholar and a peacemaker. Should I have instead lied and said they were something else?

Martians perhaps?

Mark
I understand that the flight crew was Norwegian. That’s a very important part of this story. Prove me wrong.

Random anonymous person named whatsup -

I fuckin’ hate Norwegians. They are disgusting, filthy people. I agree with you, we should nuke the buggers immediately.

Unless I am missing your point.

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The crash is real, the supporting text is made up.

The accident occurred during on the ground pre-delivery testing, and no “arabs” were involved, at rather the race of the Airbus employees is not known (or relevant).

I would not try to fly after seeing this…

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Stuart - if you have some genuine information please share it and I will edit the post. I have not been able to find anything that contradicts this version other than hearsay and the link above.

The official press release stated that it was being driven by the purchasing company’s crew, there were no airbus staff aboard, no one was hurt and it was a “routine test” that went wrong.

This press release is no where to be found now.

“Although the A340-600 already had been painted in Etihad Airways’ colors, Airbus was still the owner of the aircraft and it was insured on the policy of giant aerospace manufacturer EADS, which owns Airbus.”

“During the engine run-up test, the aircraft’s landing gear jumped over the chocks wedged against its tires to hold the A340-600 in place”

“None of the people onboard the aircraft were Etihad Airways employees, but at least one — who was injured and remained hospitalized on Nov. 16 — was an employee of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies, a service provider to the airline. The two other people who are still in hospital are Airbus employees, the manufacturer said.”

http://www.aviation.com/safety/071116-etihad-airways-a340-600-incident.html

Who cares if Arabs where manning the plane or not, I’d still not want to fly with them. Have you seen how they run their countries?

Too right - Dubai is a mess right now - it will never recover.

Why would you label them terrorists?

Who labeled them “terrorists”?

Stupid towelheads. I hope they died.

No one died in the un-making of this aircraft. Far as I know………..

If it was a ‘French’ air crew, why was there a cover up.
If the Arab country was simply a customer in waiting,
why would there be a black out on the story? Don’t
forget that a hefty proportion of France is now Arab.
(how could we forget the overturned burning cars
and riots so recent?)

As for the terrorists that use airliners as weapons,
remember the NYC trade towers were brought down
by American and United pilots who were able to
get the planes in the air. These guys clearly can’t
even do that.

THAT’S WHY MY GOD GAVE THOSE WORHTLESS MUSLIMS CAMELS

I still have not been able to get any real information. There was a press release at the time, but it has disappeared.

Those camel jockeys should have wiped the sand outta der eyes! Sheesh … they can’t even remove squatters from their own land! Snopes says they all were arabs, and morons to boot. Wtg arabs!

Well, they were certainly not too bright. To be honest, I don’t know if they were Arabs or not. Pretty dumb mistake either way.

READ:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/etihad.asp

or Google for, “arabs crash airbus”!

Notice the ethic orientation that headlines the articles!

Any more questions? Case rested!

Actually, the biggest morons of all were the French Airbus officials who let the towel-heads on the plane before they officially took ownership!

Oops!! Stick a new nose on her and she’ll be fine

Hope the insurance was fully comp and not just fire and theft.

Read:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/etihad.asp

or Google for “arabs crash airbus”, and make up your own mind.

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Excuse me but I did NOT say, “Al Jazeras last blog post .. The Zionist Jews can insult everyone and treat blacks’ in race ‘without ever being convicted”?
Whoever programmed that into your system should be fired!

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I have one thing to say about this:

ARABS……..LOLLLLLLL

Dude, that is hilarious

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read the press release, Ethiad employees where on the plane. What goes unsaid is what is important. Of course Ethiad employees caused it and of course Airbus didn’t make a big deal out of it because you are not going to tick off one of your customers by publicly humiliating them. Read how NTSB reports are written in the US. They purposely obfuscate them so people in the business know what happens but there are no juicy quotes for the media headlines.

Hi Mark! That story is so impressive that I wanted to share it with my buddies. So I ask you if you let me translate it into Russian.)

Be my guest flanker.

Gary - too right. Regardless of all the shit I have been given for being a racist, the original press release dissapeared pretty darn fast.

Of course:
http://markpknowles.com/feed

Just add “feed” to any website and away you go.

“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,. ;(