You should not operate the aircraft with full power when its empty.
See this!
Bypassing Safety Warnings... A good idea yes???
The brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger airplane ever built, sat in 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.
1. The ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area.
2. Then they took all four engines to takeoff power with a virtually empty aircraft.
3. 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 the aircraft had not been configured properly
o Flaps
o Slats
o etc..4. Then one of the ADAT crew decided to pull the circuit breaker on the Ground Proximity Sensor to silence the alarm.
· This fooled the aircraft into thinking it was in the air.
· The computers automatically released all the brakes and set the aircraft rocketing forward.
5. The ADAT crew had no idea that this is a safety feature so that pilots can't land with the brakes on.
6. Not one member of the seven-crew realized to throttle back the engines from their max power setting
Results:
The $200 million brand-new aircraft crashed into a blast barrier, totalling it.
The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown for:
1. There has been a news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere
2. Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to crew.
Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.