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Old 04-22-2009, 06:38 PM
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Old 04-22-2009, 06:41 PM
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I hope they had insurance, but this is old news frankly.
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Old 04-22-2009, 07:24 PM
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Sorry if this was posted earlier. I didn't remember seeing or hearing anything about it at the time
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Old 04-22-2009, 09:27 PM
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What's the story here? Was the crew in there? The cockpit is pretty torn up.
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Old 04-22-2009, 09:48 PM
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It was this plane:
Etihad Airbus Crashes Into Wall During Testing

It says some people were hurt, but no deaths. It happened in 2007.
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Old 04-23-2009, 07:46 AM
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There's some 60 pages of discussion on it over at PPRuNe.
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Old 04-23-2009, 07:52 AM
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Make that 27 pages.

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/3...l-wounded.html
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Old 04-23-2009, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by ToiletDuck View Post
What's the story here? Was the crew in there? The cockpit is pretty torn up.
Long story short, they were doing a runup and were annoyed by audio warnings. They knew which breaker(s) to pull to disable the audio, but apparently didn't realize that this would also disable the parking brake...
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