The land that health and safety forgot!

[Stogie]

The Darwin Awards people could find some worthy candidates here!

[Stogie]

Here are three more fools dicing with death...

[Stogie]

Ever wonder why they don't use proper metal scaffolding in these countries?

The answer is simple but I only found this out last week...

It gets too hot!

[azza33]

 

I love the Darwin awards.... some of the funniest stuff there~!

[allstar88]

[marshal]

looks to me like the guy in the plane didn't have a lot of choice but look stupid!

[Drift Spunk]

[Naang Faa]

Ahh well,if it all goes wrong at least the Sawang Boriboon are always there
to make things better...555



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[BAM]

Best vid of all on YouTube!

"Are you guys ok?"

[Guest]

Took this today on the soi I live. I always try to take my camera with me because a picture is often waiting for me.

Check out these two mental giants using the wires to support the ladder.

[Guest]

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 ....

The ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area. Then they took all four engines to takeoff power with a virtually empty aircraft. 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 (flaps/slats, etc.) 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. The ADAT crew had no idea that this is a safety feature so that pilots can't land with the brakes on.

Not one member of the seven-man Arab crew was quick enough to throttle back the engines from their max power setting, so the $200 million brand-new aircraft crashed into a blast barrier, totaling it.


The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown for there has been a news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere. Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Muslim Arabs. Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.

[Guest]

This happened Wednesday, July 23 rd 2008,
out in Mill Creek , WA .
The driver was attempting to throw the logging
cable over the logs to secure them.
As you can see, he hooked the electric line instead!

He said the tires began to fry within seconds..
very lucky man he could easily have been fried himself!

[Guest]

Lucky logger

[manarak]

follow up on the etihad accident

Friday, November 16, 2007
New A340-600 in ground accident at Toulouse
A340-600 accident at ToulouseA brand new A340-600 aircraft was badly damaged when it ran through a blast barrier at the Airbus Saint-Martin facility at Toulouse, France. There were no fatalities, but five people were injured. The accident happened late on the afternoon of November 15, 2007.

The aircraft, which was painted in Etihad Airways livery, was undergoing pre-delivery tests on the ground at the Airbus facility at the time of the accident. According to a news release issued today by Airbus, engine-run-ups were being carried out on the A340-600, MSN 856, which was due to be delivered to Etihad in just a few days.

At the time of the accident, there were nine people on board the aircraft, including two Airbus staff, and seven employees of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT). Five of those nine people were injured, but as of today only the two Airbus employees and one ADAT employee remained hospitalized. None of their injuries are reported to be life-threatening.

Etihad Airways confirms that there were no Etihad staff involved in the accident.

Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies is a maintenance service provider to Etihad Airways. ADAT was formerly known as GAMCO.

Click here to view a brief news video (French language) about the accident, from the TF1 network in France.

Best wishes to those injured for a speedy and complete recovery.

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.

[Guest]

Nice follow up Manarak, I didn't realise it was that long ago.