On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:00:39 -0800, Jim Stewart wrote:
Gunner wrote:
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:20:06 -0800, 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.

Some duct tape, a little Bondo...pop rivets....no problem

Ummm, but that's how Airbus put it together in the first place, and
you can see how well that assembly work held...

It'll buff right out...

"It's only a flesh wound... In the fleshy part of the brain..."

-- Bruce --