On Friday, 16 May 2008, the brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, one of the largest passenger airplanes ever built at the time, sat in its hangar in Toulouse, France without a single hour of airtime.
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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 4 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 take off but the aircraft 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 Muslim Arabs. Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.
Airbus $200 million aircraft meets retaining wall and the wall wins...
Ushanka tip to the People's Cube avid correspondent Ethel Rosenberg.
Of course this would be offensive to Muslim sensibilities. For Allah controls everything decisively even unto the electrons, and so this was Allah's will. Therefore this was meant to prove the impossibility of manned flight.
For some reason this reminds me of that minor incident 7 years ago involving brave muslims, airplanes, and running into things. If I remember correctly, large buildings became temporarily highly magnetic (probably global warming). Realizing what was happening before anyone else, several brave muslism men on planes entered their pilots' cabins attempting to explain to the captains what was happening. When the pilots realized that the planes were probably going to crash due to the magnetism, they cowardly comitted suicide with some handy knives the muslims were kind enough to bring. Then the muslims attempted to steer the planes away from the magnetic forces, but they were too strong. So they bravely hunkered down at the front the plane, hoping their bodies might absorb enough of the impact that some behind them might survive. The planes struck the tallest (and thus, most magnetic) buildings around at the time - the WTC. It was a true tragedy - I can't remember a time when so many innocent young muslim men lost their lives.
Perhaps this is another spontaneous act of temporary large structure extreme magnetism.
Let us view this as an attempt to trascend barriers. As noted or implied in another thread, community-organized-and-daily-reality-of-capitalist-exploitation-mural-painted Walls are Unity. Now people on both sides of the wall have an airplane to enjoy. It does not matter whether it flies. What matters is an airplane has been provided, more equally than before.
Kudos to those who gave the pilots a chance. Sure, they may have lacked finesse, but orthodox "virtues" such as common sense, training, and experience should not be barriers to their aspirations as long as they were willing to try really hard. If there are any survivors, I hope their self-esteem is unharmed, otherwise this could be bad for the airline.
A modern-day morality tale illustrative of the Left trying to control the economy.
LOL... Ahem.. To Detroit with you and your bigoted bourgeois morals!
ZMDAVID wrote
"I fought the wall and the wall won..."
On the other hand...
- Reagan fought the Wall and the Wall lost...
- Pink Floyd recorded the Wall and Pink Floyd lost...
My Glorious Incarnadine Trapezoid Leader,
I beg to differ regarding Pink Floyd, Sir. Pink Floyd inspires my kitchen proles to work much harder for the People,and it covers the moaning and complaining so that my "old" ears can't hear them, LOL. Which is a good thing, since I am killing losing workers due to my constant demands to get this Purge Inaugural Party done to Commissar Theocritis' wants. Just between you andme, is he always like this when he hosts his endless social gatherings? I have worked with some very demanding clients and prissy, vain-glorious Chefs in my time, but he takes the cake! Gracias, for letting me vent my frustration, and BTW who is in charge of doling out the happy pills? I could sure use some.
your very tired Chef,
Che' Gourmet
Imagine if the contract for the Port Security (pushed by Slick Willy) had been approved. They would be ramming tankers into walls etc.
Too long, my friends, has this hidden commodity been hoarded by the Party. This incident of the aeroplane shows that finally we have broken free of another error of private property. Now, at last, the Redistribution of Incompetence!
Red Kitty, is this a side line to dropping rifles? Or is dropping rifles merely an instance of the Redistribution of Incompetence?
Ché, my lord, man, all this moaning and whining about a few simple requests. You don't know from demanding. Ask Bruno about what I'm like when I'm demanding. All I want is Popes Noses of Bald Eagles en brochette for the Inaugural purge. That's all. You'd think that I was asking for the impossible, like a Democratic Convention when most of the attendees didn't walk the checks and stiff the waiters.
Red Kitty, is this a side line to dropping rifles? Or is dropping rifles merely an instance of the Redistribution of Incompetence?
Ché, my lord, man, all this moaning and whining about a few simple requests. You don't know from demanding. Ask Bruno about what I'm like when I'm demanding. All I want is Popes Noses of Bald Eagles en brochette for the Inaugural purge. That's all. You'd think that I was asking for the impossible, like a Democratic Convention when most of the attendees didn't walk the checks and stiff the waiters.
Ahh...Hello there Commissar Theocritis,
Was I ranting uncontrollably, Sir?? I did not realize it myself! I do beg your humble pardons, Sir.
It's just that the PHK is at a fevor pitch now, and I'm ready to line up the staff and shoot them for their stupidity. Can't even boil water right! They are complaining about eating beets and potatoes (an I even added a few entrails of some of the foolhardy ones to their gruel); they are under the mistaken impression that they no longer have to work because the Obamessiah has been elected. Is there something I could add to the gruel to increase their output? If not, I may need to do a purge of my own. But I don't want to because then I would have to train a new bunch, and I really don't have time.
What's this Kevlar stuff? You said you were enarmored of my panache, Si? I am a bit high-strung as a Chef of any renoun would be, but excuse me if I offended your sensibilities. It wasn't intentional. As for your Proboscis of BaldEagle how about Stilo el Arrecife sauce, or better yet, a mole?
Mole? The one with chocolate and peppers and cinnamon? I like it on chicken and have thought about it on the Popes Noses of Bald Eagle sauce.
As to the Arricife sauce--I do like cascabel peppers. But what do you think? The popes noses might be a big, er, gamy you know, considering that the bald eagle is a wild bird. Do you think that the cascabels are enough to overpower the gaminess or would the chocolate mole do a better job? But we do not want to lose the popes noses, you know. After this dinner, there will be no more popes noses of bald eagle because there will be no more bald eagles.
Even on the currency where the eagle will be replaced by the smiling visage of his O'liness.
Mole? The one with chocolate and peppers and cinnamon? I like it on chicken and have thought about it on the Popes Noses of Bald Eagle sauce.
As to the Arricife sauce--I do like cascabel peppers. But what do you think? The popes noses might be a big, er, gamy you know, considering that the bald eagle is a wild bird. Do you think that the cascabels are enough to overpower the gaminess or would the chocolate mole do a better job? But we do not want to lose the popes noses, you know. After this dinner, there will be no more popes noses of bald eagle because there will be no more bald eagles.
Even on the currency where the eagle will be replaced by the smiling visage of his O'liness.
My Dear Commissar Theocritis,
I suggested Mole because of the theme for the Party (Do we have a theme?). Sorry, just tired.....and don't acuse me of thinking, as I'm running on empty about now and I haven't a coherent thought in my head. BTW - about the music - Are the Derailers still around? A little honky tonk would really liven things up, Si? As far as your pristine white clothes, don'[t you have a bevy of servants at your disposal to clean your party duds, or just steal buy new ones. The food deserves passion, Oh splendiferous one!
Come to think of it, they were on the ground. I thought they didn't fly into objects on the ground. They don't want to land, remember?
But the flight instructors who didn't get that are utterly brain dead. And wasn't it Jamie Gorelick who set up the wall which didn't allow the government to coordinate this information?
Earlier in this thread a comrade, possibly overindulging in Stoli, said something about (un)qualified pilots. Comrades, what are tests and credentials but capitalist constructs to keep the common man down, out, and exploited. I exist. Fly a plane? Yes, I can!
Although I loathe pointing out positive aspects of Amerikkkan (KKK decapitalized following election of The One), clearly the socialist French state is lacking in a uniquely American point: lawyers. Had this happened in the US, the pilots would be suitably reimbursed for their pain and suffering, the wall's financiers punished for not building it further away yet building it too tough to give way when necessary; the aircraft manufacturer sued for building a defective plane; and all managers sued for making workers work for 40 hours a week, far beyond union guidelines, thereby contributing to worker fatigue and the inevitable end results of parts failure and hurt consumers.
If anyone can "spread the wealth around," it is lawyers, comrades. Remember that come the show trials.
Yes, Tovarich, I forgot that. And how? Just now I have seen lawyers advertising for lawsuits for people who have used heparin--a horrible drug, for it stops infection. After all, if people could use modern technology to live then lawyers would have nothing to live off of.
A modern-day morality tale illustrative of the Left trying to control the economy.
LOL... Ahem.. To Detroit with you and your bigoted bourgeois morals!
ZMDAVID wrote
"I fought the wall and the wall won..."
On the other hand...
- Reagan fought the Wall and the Wall lost...
- Pink Floyd recorded the Wall and Pink Floyd lost...
umm...that was a Roger Waters project (legal issues over credits to Young Lust, music written by David Gilmour, caused PF breakup). Waters, the Pig, wanted ALL credit for the project, as I recall. He's the lone nutjob of the group (aside from Syd Barrett).
Their Umma got Gumma while several species of small furry jihadis gathered in a cave and grooved with Obama and Osama.
And after all, taking off and landing are not important, hijacking and flying into buildings are.
I never did manage to listen to Pink Floyd on the few times that I had acid...
One of my regrets.
Comrade Commissar Theocritus,
Your admission of past chemical consciousness expansion can only burnish your progressive credentials in my proletarian eyes. Tim Leary has smiled. I share the same lack of above experience but not the regrets.
I made it to college before listening to Led Zeppelin. The popularity of Pink Floyd is somewhat lost on me. I can enjoy certain songs but never enough to part with money for them. It is strange. But then, the Butthole Surfers' Hairway to Steven is somewhat similar regarding mind-blowing psychedelia (and adds some moral offense).
Acid (citric, in case the DEA is reading) was too distracting for music enhancement, but for enjoying snowfall at night, ah, that is something I might even recommend. If, as per Messr. Hendrix, you have ever been experienced--"not necessarily stoned, but, beautiful."
Hey, that song wasn't written as a foretelling of Barack Obama, was it? I think I can feel a People's Karaoke coming on.
Comrades, I lead these days a disgustingly legal life. No drugs, no DWI, no liquor, bills paid, pillar of the community, except of course when Bruno has a play date with Harvey the Pooka, and then tongues wag.
I keep up the end by regularly beating my proles, and doing the odd impalement of reactionaries but only at the prescribed time of day and in the best possible taste.
I never did manage to listen to Pink Floyd on the few times that I had acid...
One of my regrets.
Hey, that song wasn't written as a foretelling of Barack Obama, was it? I think I can feel a People's Karaoke coming on.
Yo, G!
Ya get same cheap buzz by listening to My-Man-G-The-One's convention speech while watching the PF Wall movie, or the stock-ticker.
His boy, O'Biden, is coming out with a same thing for recovering alcoholics; it has his rants and gaffs all looped together--be like listening to a bunch of old drunk crackers rappin in the local bar.
I keep up the end by regularly beating my proles, and doing the odd impalement of reactionaries but only at the prescribed time of day and in the best possible taste.
Comrade Commissar Theocritus,
The laws in your area are remarkably progressive! Before impalement, do said reactionaries first offer up their capitalist exploitation units as an offering to Lenin for allowing them to make the ultimate sacrifice to the state?
Actually they ran screaming like little girls, or like little queens toward a Babs concert, which made catching them for impalement all the more necessary, the better to protect our hearing.
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans
of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by precedent,
by implication, by erosion, by default, by dint of constant
pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other -
until the day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's
official ideology. ~ Ayn Rand
Write down this number and report to your Kommissar at the nearest railroad station.
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San Andreas Fault in California preemptively renamed George Bush's Fault Media Matters editor blows self up over Limbaugh's 'bomber' remark End of Ramadan brings new rioting season to France Harry Reid bangs shoe on table: "We will bury you!" Dutch follow Ahmadinejad's lead, declare "there are no dykes in Holland" Ahmadinejad to Amerika: "Don't tase me, bro!" Bomb Girl and Taser Boy sell rights to their characters to Marvel Comics Cindy Sheehan hires Bomb Girl and Taser Boy as image consultants CBS stands by firing of Dan Rather: "He couldn't tell our logo from a hole in the ground" Jessie Jackson on Obama: "too White." Obama on Jackson: "I'm a smoke dat biatch if I see him"
Tasered victim at John Kerry's speech to receive Purple Heart Mugabe blames Zimbabwe's meltdown on Global Warming To stomp out possible confusion, MSM changes spelling of Obama to Ubama Craving acceptance from liberals, General Petraeus gains 300lbs and debuts report at Cannes. George Soros stops funding Democrats, converts to Islam Edwards: 41% of American children don't have lawyers John Edwards proposes "single payer" trial lawyer insurance for all, mandatory pre-jurisprudence care Illegal aliens kill people Americans won't killDemocrats select 2008 presidential slogan: "Death to America" Larry "Happy Feet" Craig uses Michael Flatley's Riverdance defense "Americans Coming Together" admit they had timing issues Presbyterian clergy issue fatwah calling for Pope's deathNew Jersey teen cracked iPhone with his face Vick awaits doggie-style welcome in prison Rock star behaves like rap star: huge media outcry China's recall of defective Daily Kos bloggers causes suicides among Democrat strategists Al Gore to recall the Internet Media declares September National Bridge Awareness Month First New Orleans, now Minnesota: Anderson Cooper travels up the Mississippi without a paddle Ray Nagin pledges to build a chocolate bridge instead William Jefferson spotted under collapsed bridge retrieving mystery package Cannibalism, rape, looting, republicanism rampant in Minneapolis Lindsay Lohan to enter astronaut training program Nigeria's plan to nationalize local spam industry sparks massive riots in Lagos
Democrat Congress's two major victories: minimum wage increase and al-Qaeda's restored operating capability London Mayor Livingston mandates Sharia law at nightclubs to prevent further bombings Taliban spokesman blames media bias as civilian deaths from US air strikes grab headlines: "Taliban has murdered thousands of civilians and we can't even get mentioned on Countdown with Olbermann. What gives?"Back alley massage parlors now offering "better ending than Sopranos" Bush to close Gitmo, detainees released into Mexican custody to be put on fast track to US citizenship
Study: Dan rather still unable to tell the difference between Paris Hilton and Katie Couric Civil war in Gaza: if it's not in Iraq why report it? US media increasingly impatient at lack of civil war in IraqUS Embassy in Syria warns of sex attacks. So how long will Bill be visiting for? Delighted Dems: "The surge has failed!"MSM spokesman: There are no civil war clashes in Gaza! Palestinians still wonder why their real civil war can't knock Iraq "civil war" off the front page As Albanians welcome Bush and show love for USA, NY Times offers them free subscriptions to "solve problem" Paris gets out of jail faster than an illegal immigrant Socialist utopia takes foothold in Venezuela as water cannons salute victory Pelosi: "I've seen climate change." John Fogerty of CCR also wants to know "if she's ever seen rain" Democrats call for troop withdrawal from Jersey Harry Reid: "Troop presence in New Jersey creating more terrorists" French riot police deployed as open minded, tolerant socialists expected to react to election results Progressives concerned with Sarkozy's "extremist agenda " of rule of law and assimilation to French culture Dems: War needs deadline; only social policies can run indefinitely Sheryl Crow to wipe out global warming one butt at a time Va Tech lessons for MSM: must ban guns, rich kids ACLU calls for calm, fears backlash against innocent gun owners: 'all gun owners aren't terrorists' Liberal groups join gun tolerance and awareness workshops Gun owners converting to Islam in droves to ward off profiling Sharp jump in number of 'non-decapitated' babies following Supreme Court decision Sharpton makes a list of 57 Don Imus sympathizers on public airwaves Al Gore and John Kerry agree: people who live in greenhouses should not expel noxious gases Al Gore hired by K-Y to pro- mote Global Warming Jelly New study shows Earth's 'fever' contagious; Mars asks planets to kick 'Greenhouse Mary' out of solar system Schumer demands Karl Rove be indicted on 1976 parking ticket Al Qaeda reacts to Schumer attack: "Thank Allah we're not Republicans!" Dems: Khalid Sheik Mohamed just watched too many episodes of 24 and made all that stuff in his confession up Fitzgerald to prosecute Ann Coulter for disclosing identity of presidential candidate John Edwards Following Scooter Libby success, media demands journalists be included on all future juries Kent State professor calls for bin Laden victory: time to bring in the National Guard again? Hollywood to America: our moral issues are better than your moral issues Obama promises to "purge himself" if he loses to Hillary to spare the public a lengthy trial House vote: Insurgents react with non-binding IED Democrat leaders don't support terrorists but they support their mission North Korea agrees to nuclear disarmament, media hails Madeleine Albright Bush: I support Democrat majority - but not their mission Is it time for Pinochet yet? Helen Thomas to be inducted into Museum of Natural History