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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
What is it with Muslims and airplanes?
13 comments:
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BlogDog said...
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HA ha!
-Nelson Muntz -
9/22/10, 12:32 PM
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Hell_Is_Like_Newark said...
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Snopes is a bit ambiguous as to the validity.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/etihad.asp -
9/22/10, 1:03 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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French investigators in December 2008 (translated into English here) did not specficially identify the cause of the crash to be ADAT technicians who were unfamiliar with the aircraft and overrode a vital safety feature:-SNOPES"
Duh. Vendors in a free market abstain from calling their customer a moron. -
9/22/10, 1:32 PM
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SoylentGreen said...
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As us computer people say, "RTFM!"
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9/22/10, 1:53 PM
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Kristophr said...
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Snopes is no longer a good source.
The owner of the site is a leftist twit, and has decided to allow PC to replace truth.
I won't accept them as a source anymore because of this unreliability. -
9/22/10, 2:11 PM
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Anonymous said...
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my father and uncle were military advisers to arab/mid-eastern countries. They said that it was common practice for the manuals to weapons, from rifles to tanks to be withheld from those operating the equipment as a way of maintaining status and "power".
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9/22/10, 4:00 PM
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Ralph Gizzip said...
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Well ... crashing airplanes is one thing they're good at.
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9/22/10, 6:09 PM
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Juice said...
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Ralph Gizzip, "ta-dum-bum!" :)
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9/22/10, 6:46 PM
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Wabano said...
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Snopes are hopeless cretins...
(They vetted O'Bummer's birth certificate, didn't they?)
""It was all over in 13 seconds,"
At this weight and full power, it is enough for take off or totally wipe the whole airplane.
Airbus is on record for falsifying data recorders to save face...at the
Airbus 320 crash in Paris, they even interned the crew in a mental
asylum like the KGB does to blame
them for what was a computer error.
Fact, a pilot dont fly an Airbus,
he just set the auto pilot.
The six month simulator session mimic a real airplane so Airbus
pilots maintain a minimum of competence.
This is just another instance of a computer error camouflaged by
Airbus to mask their incompetence.
Fly an Airbus at your own perils!
Think about it, their pilots only fly a real plane ten hours every six months! -
9/22/10, 9:20 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Wonder what the Airbus computer thought when the flight from South America to France had its airspeed indicator [pitot] get froze up. Computer thinks airspeed is zero?? Full flaps? Pull the throttles to idle? How did it handle airspeed vs altitude? Wonder which 'instrument' won in the autopilot logic, or did it freeze up like the StarTrek runaway robot ... Does Not Compute.
The majority of the rudder of an A320 fell off on a flight from Cuba to Canada, with the plane declaring and landing in FL. Passenger taken [likely] pics indicate corrosion and separation of the hinges from the panels.
The rudder of the Nov 2001 flight that went down on Long Island fell off when the pedals were moved too far. The 'autopilot' changes how the pedals move the rudder based upon airspeed. If you are moving slow, the pedals cause little rudder movement, when airspeed exceeds a specific number, the rudder reacts with much more deflection. Perhaps that difference caused the rudder to be ineffective in the Atlantic crash during stormy weather.
I do not like Airbus products in the least. "Nothing can go wrong go wrong go wrong go wrong"
tomw -
9/23/10, 10:23 AM
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Ride Fast said...
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Ah the joys of anti-French, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bigotry.
The pictures in the article aren't even of the same aircraft (I counted at least three).
If the incident is being held secret how did the author find out? Oh, I know. The Airbus is so automated it posted the article itself! -
9/23/10, 12:33 PM
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Kristophr said...
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Ride Fast: You are spending too much time in Cali, it's rotting yer brain.
Visit Paris or in South Asia before you comment about bigotry.
Parisians really do think everyone else in the world is an un-lucid idiot.
Arabs really are into these stupid little powergames, and are even more prone to not RTFM than we are. Companies doing work in the UAE and Saudi have to hire outsiders to do physical labor, and any supervisory positions require two hires ... A well connected Arab who gets the boss title and a window office, and a North American or European who actually does his job, and is paid extra to pretend to be his assistant. -
9/23/10, 1:35 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Per the Aviation Saftety Network:
"An Airbus A340-600 due to be delivered to Etihad Airways as A6-EHG was performing ground tests at the Airbus plant, Toulouse Airport. The wheels were not chocked when the crew started engine and brake tests at 15:19. Until 15:58 the maximum epr on the engine was between 1.04 and 1.22. One hour later tests were recommenced. All four engines were on 1.24 and 1.26 epr power for about three minutes. Thirteen seconds before the impact the aircraft started to move. Within 1 or 2 seconds the crew applied brake pedal inputs and selected parking brake off. These actions led the normal brake pressure to increase to its normal value.
Two seconds prior before the impact, all 4 engine thrust levers were selected to idle. The aircraft impacted the containment wall at a ground speed of 30 kts. The nose went up and through the concrete wall. Five persons were injured."
Source:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20071115-0
What the hell did the aircrew think they were doing?? -
9/24/10, 11:59 AM
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