One off the Many of Mr. Jack Ass

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Misleading , Biased, Baked information .

Of my continuous relationship with the internet and continuous anguish over the biased information which is being spread over this medium, I am trying to make an effort to put some facts known to people like me who are vulnerable to such misinformation. I have in my earlier post “ Is everyone reading “ have tried to mention one Mr. Jack Ass, who is a possible responsible for such behavior. Below are some findings of this Mr. Jack Ass. I have always termed people who maneuver information as Mr. Jack Ass, as they not only mislead but also have biased approach to perform their heinous deeds.
To give a brief into the history of this episode, in the months of November 2008, I had seen certain pictures of a Etihad Airbus A340-600, being crashed into a wall which was under testing at the Airbus base in Toulouse, France. The news at the time was just about the crash and photographs of the same, with the details of the crash still unknown at that time. The photographs at that time seemed to fulfill my anxiety but the detailed news was left alone which wandered off in the flow of Life.
Seven months later a tiny envelope popped up on my task bar telling me I had an email, and like always dived into Outlook to open it. And there was an email appended below stating the details of the crash, note – As deemed felt by Mr. Jack Ass himself. Making a little research on this news via the archives medium of local newspapers the actual or rather reported news came to light, which I have also appended below for your viewing.
Whatever conclusion one needs to draw by this example, just be my guest and draw them. Just make sure next time u read a piece of information, remember that it could have been from the archives of Mr. Jack Ass himself.


Email Recd with Pictures ( pasted above ) and assessment (Possibly by Mr. Jack Ass)

This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger airplane ever built, sits just outside its hangar in Toulouse, France without a single hour of airtime. Enter the Arab flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as engine run-ups 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 Four 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 it 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 due to the news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere. Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Arabs. Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.

 
 
Report by Local Newspaper dated Dec 21 - http://tinyurl.com/lgr7fj
 
Unsecured wheels' caused Airbus crash

Ivan Gale

Last Updated: December 21. 2008 6:52PM UAE / December 21. 2008 2:52PM GMT
 

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.

Engineers from Airbus and Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT), formerly GAMCO, were aboard the US$250 million (Dh918m) Airbus A340-600 when the accident happened on Nov 15 last year at the Airbus facility in Toulouse, France.
Four of the nine workers on board were seriously injured after the aircraft suddenly surged forward during the tests and slammed into the test-pen wall. The impact of the 220-tonne aircraft moving at 55kmh nearly split the aircraft in two. A “lack of detection and correction” of violations to test procedures caused the accident, according to the official 30-page report. The official account was released in French last week by the Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses (BEA) and then translated by Air Transport Intelligence, a UK-based aviation website.

The website reported BEA as saying 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,” the website reported in its translation.
As the main maintenance, repair and overhaul provider for Etihad Airways, ADAT had been a part of the pre-delivery tests.

The firm is expanding rapidly to serve the growing needs of Etihad and last year it said it hoped to earn $800m in revenues per annum by 2012.

“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.”

While the English translation of the report on the Air Transport Intelligence website details how engineers tried to stop the plane once it was in motion, authorities stopped short of saying who had allowed the accident to occur.

“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.”

An ADAT spokesman declined to comment. “At this stage, we have not seen a copy of the report and so cannot comment on any elements that might refer to Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies,” he said.

Investigators noted in their report that tests on other aircraft in the days before had taken place under similar circumstances.

“Looking at shots recorded several days before the accident, we can see that some tests are carried out with wheel chocks and not others,” the website said in its translation of the BEA report. Airbus has reportedly tightened its procedures for the engine test, which was designed to check for fuel leaks.

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.

“It’s definitely one of the more unusual accidents I’ve come across,” said Mr Kaminski-Morrow.

Author: Makarand Subhedar | Published Jul 15, 2009 | 05:07 PM

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