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[UnfitnessFreak]

The airbus A380 is the biggest commercial passenger liner. That's an A340. 

[Mutt]

The airbus A380 is the biggest commercial passenger liner. That's an A340.?

 

 

 

 

Correction - Its a stuffed plane is what it really is

[peloton]

http://airlineworld.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/etihad-airbus-slams-into-wall-while-engine-testing/

 

 

 

This is an incident of Nov 2007, wherein the aircraft's engines were routinely tested - by Airbus - at Toulouse prior to delivery. It is unclear what caused the aircraft to release, but 5 people were injured.

 

 

 

The Airbus A340 - 600 is the longest airplane in civil service, not to be confused with the A380 800.

 

 

 

The Airbus A380-800 (the superjumbo) is the largest passenger airliner in the world, but has a shorter fuselage than the Airbus A340-600 (Airbus's next-biggest passenger aeroplane).

[Velouria]

 

From Snopes

 

The photographs displayed above do represent the aftermath an

Airbus 340 engine test that ended in a ground collision, but unconfirmed, pejorative information has been added to the accompanying text

 

which describes the circumstances of the accident.

 

 

 

On 15 November 2007, a four-engine Airbus A340-600

(which is not actually "the largest passenger airplane ever built") in

the process of being delivered to Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways was

undergoing ground engine testing at the Airbus Technical Center in

Toulouse, France. During those tests, the aircraft somehow broke loose

and crashed into the test-pen wall as pictured above. According to

press reports, nine people ? two Airbus employees and seven employees of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT), a service provider contracted by Etihad ? were

aboard the airliner at the time, and four of them were injured. (It is

not true, as claimed, that there was "a news blackout in the major

media in France and elsewhere" because "coverage of the story was

deemed insulting to Moslem Arabs.")

 

 

Although the accident did occur while ground engine tests were

being conducted with the plane's parking brake applied, a report

released by French investigators in December 2008

did not confirm that claim made above that the crash was caused by ADAT

technicians who were unfamiliar with the aircraft and overrode a vital

safety feature:

French investigators have found that an

Airbus to be delivered to Etihad Airways crashed during ground engine

tests because the wheels were unchocked and attempts to steer away from

a wall had decreased brake pressure.

 

 

A 30-page report released by the Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses (BEA)

said the four Trent 500 engines, carrying 56,000 pounds of thrust each,

were being tested at high power and the wheels were left unchocked.

 

 

"Surprise led the ground-test technician to focus on the braking

system, so he did not think about reducing the engines' thrust," said

the report.

 

 

"It was all over in 13 seconds," said David Kaminski-Morrow, an editor

at Air Transport Intelligence. "The aeroplane shouldn't haven been

running with engines at higher power and the aeroplane should have had

chocks on the wheels to stop [it] moving, and these things didn't

happen. It was basically a schoolboy error."

 

 

"The report does not say who made the decision to put the

aeroplane in the position which led to the accident in the first place.

What part ADAT played and what part Airbus made is not publicly clear,"

Mr Kaminski-Morrow said.

 

 

"This will probably be the subject of Airbus internal inquiries. But I

find it hard to believe suddenly all the rules got broken because ADAT

came along. It was at the Airbus headquarters, it was an Airbus test

pen, it was an Airbus engineer at the right-hand seat, which the report

said is where control inputs were coming from. An ADAT engineer was in

the left seat."

 

 

In the run-up to the accident, the full-power engine test with

wheels unchocked was testing the limits of the parking brake. As the

aircraft began to move, an ADAT engineer reported the aircraft was

moving. According to the flight recorder, at that point the pedal brake

was applied and the parking brake deactivated, said Mr Kaminski-Morrow.

Finally, the steering wheel was turned to avoid crashing into the

test-pen wall, but that had the opposite effect as it instead reduced

the braking pressure.

Velouria2009-03-19 04:23:21

[Marius]

YOU are a bunch of Plane Nerds~!

[UnfitnessFreak]

 

YOU are a bunch of Plane Nerds~!

 

You say it like it's a bad thing.

 

[Velouria]

 

YOU are a bunch of Plane Nerds~!

Remind me again how far your training walk was this morning?

 

[Marius]

[fandacious]

 

YOU are a bunch of Plane Nerds~!

 

when i've got the cash, i'm going for a flip in this.

 

i dont care if the DOF says its a waste of money. i've ALWAYS wanted to

 

http://www.thundercity.co.za/pages/499409045/our-jets/eel.asp

 

[Napalm]

The guy I worked for missed his SAA flight to George a couple of years back, so he hired a Buccaneer to fly him there.  Guess who has too much money?

 

[fandacious]

 

The guy I worked for missed his SAA flight to George a couple of years back' date=' so he hired a Buccaneer to fly him there.  Guess who has too much money?

[/quote']

 

 

hahaha... classic. you sure its tru tho?

 

coz u cant just walk into thundercity and charter a plane... they need to be flight ready, fueled, have take off clearance, file flight plans etc. it would have been quicker if he hired a heli to george..

 

[fiasm]

YOU are a bunch of Plane Nerds~!

You say it like it's a bad thing.

 

aircraft are cool

[Napalm]

It's true. He lived in Houtbay - and if the morning traffic report sounded bad, he flew in by chopper. To Cape Town city center.

 

[Grayskull]

 

It's true. He lived in Houtbay - and if the morning traffic report sounded bad' date=' he flew in by chopper. To Cape Town city center.

[/quote']

 

jislaaik!

arrange an interview...

 

[Trekker]

 

The guy I worked for missed his SAA flight to George a couple of years back' date=' so he hired a Buccaneer to fly him there.  Guess who has too much money?

[/quote']

 

 

hahaha... classic. you sure its tru tho?

 

coz u cant just walk into thundercity and charter a plane... they need to be flight ready, fueled, have take off clearance, file flight plans etc. it would have been quicker if he hired a heli to george..

 

I once met this guy from PE who owns a Russian training jet, Albatross L-38.  Bought it in Russia for ZAR1,5 mil - a steal.  He regularly takes it out for a "flip" - only problem is the ZAR15,000 lamp olie per hour.  He swears he only have it serviced once a year, as the law forces him to.

 

I took this pic of his fly-bye just after he took off again...

 

And here it is parked at the airfield just before take off.

 

 

Now that my friend fand, is the ultimate rich boy's toy!!!

 

[fandacious]

1.5 is indeed a steal.. but i hear that the guy from thundercity bought his jets for almost nothing as well... the only catch was that no-one knew if they were working or not. and he never got 1xassembled jet. he got a couple of crates of parts and had to put them together.

 

Ja, the electric lightning burns 7tonnes of lamp oilie per minut with its after burners on. your fuel bill could get quite high.

 

something else i found quite interesting after visiting thunder city is the size of the jets. they look small on tv or in the movies but are ENORMOUS.

 

the EEL is 17m long and a kulula plane (737-400) is only 29m long. the EEL is 7m high and a 737-400 is 11m high.

 

the jets get serviced every X amount of hours, regardless of whether or not they fly. there are some other services that happen after x hours of flying as well.

 

now i just need to sign that deal so i can go for a flip in one...