i’m really let down by the amount of bigotry in this thread.
Maybe so, but a little comic relief is sometimes in order, however tasteless, on the subject of arabs crashing airplanes into things.
Just remember that the original thread only listed the known crew members and that it would be difficult not to discuss the nationality since the plane was cleary marked. No slander was meant. Though several posts thereafter did go a bit out of focus. I wasn’t familiar with Aircrewbuzz and it does bring a bit of focus into the image. Injuries were sustained and no loss of life. So the main result is that these images give us the impression of what goes it to building one of these beheamouths. Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies is a maintenance service provider to Etihad Airways. ADAT was formerly known as GAMCO.
The pink stuff by the way is insulation. Also the simple nationality identification of Air bus crew or the airline crew actually says nothing about their over all intelligence. The described procedures show a clear lack of training on the specific type of aircraft. Clearly the aircraft computers took over and caused the brake failure. Human inexperience and computer programed actions wrecked this bird.
“UPDATE November 19, 2007: FlightGlobal.com is reporting that the A340-600 ‘had completed its engine test-runs and was exiting the test area at the time of the accident.’ The same article also mentions confirmation from Etihad that the aircraft was a write-off.”
DANG!!!
That’s just crazy. You’d think someone would’ve thought at some point “Hmmm…maybe we should throttle back”. [%-)]
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LMAO!!! The aircraft was a write-off…ya THINK?
Geomodeller’s correct that some people don’t have a clue that open flame in an aircraft is a bad idea. That said, I doubt very much that Lockheed would have eliminated the cargo bay insulation and added extra glass laminate structure to the Tri-Star if the cause of this incident was a roasted goat. A passenger had brought a butane fueled stove aboard, so there was some speculation they may have tried to cook something. See this wikipedia article, I got the butane info from the second source they cite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudia_Flight_163.
With all due respect to Darwin, there’s no way that anyone could say “This happened because they were roasting a goat” because everyone aboard the plane died! No witnesses, and there’s nothing in the CVR tape about it. It’s definitely urban legend.
Most of the passengers were Pakistani pilgrims.
I hear ya, I’m pretty new here and never thought this forum would house this kind of stupidity…
very depressing.
I have inspected for quarantine purposes jets that have come back from a Hajj. Many of the passengers are very poor and are not used to modern amenities. Just like the old ladies who wanted to use the kerosene stoves. They just don’t understand the difference of riding an airplane versus riding on a train.
The Hajj is a once in a lifetime experience for much of the faithful of Islam. Many of these people may have experience the train or bus ride to the airport as a first as well. When the aircraft arrived for my inspection, there was nothing but the seats left. First aide kits, floatation devices were all taking out. The aircraft seating configuration was done as entirely of coach in this old DC10. These aircraft are chartered and most of the time no translators or support personnel are supplied by the chartering group which only pays for the lease of the aircraft and a flight crew. It would be so much better if these chartering groups would supply a minimal staff of native speakers to help these passengers on the Hajj flights.
Mike T.
i don’t know whats wrong !! a bit of putty here and there and she’ll be flying again… [8-]
I think you quoted the wrong person, we weren’t talking about the plane… 