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Mark F Mark F is offline
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Default OT - Bad day at Airbus

Apparently not the first time, happened in Vancouver once.
Apparently with flaps up, the computer thought that with full
forward thrust, it was insane to have brakes applied - perhaps
a condtition brought about by some breaker that had to be turned
off just to carry out the thrust test.....


Jim Stewart wrote:
A brand-new A340 doing full-throttle tests
slipped it's brakes and/or jumped it's chocks,
climbed a blast shield, dropped and broke the
cockpit off.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1293784/M/

http://www.avweb.com/newspics/airbus...t_02_large.jpg


A couple people hurt, probably at least a
couple people looking for new jobs.