brand new A340-600 totaled
 

I hope they had insurance, but this is old news frankly.

Sorry if this was posted earlier. I didn't remember seeing or hearing anything about it at the time

What's the story here? Was the crew in there? The cockpit is pretty torn up.

It was this plane:
Etihad Airbus Crashes Into Wall During Testing

It says some people were hurt, but no deaths. It happened in 2007.

There's some 60 pages of discussion on it over at PPRuNe.

Make that 27 pages.

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/3...l-wounded.html

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...