woops

[TechBoyJK]

http://kevintren.posterous.com...people-borrow-your-car

 

[RoloMather]

Wow. At least it's not a 858,275,234,943 dollar whoops.

 

[rh71]

<insert buff out line>

<insert haha french people line>

<insert something about "doh">

 

[BoomerD]

ROFLMFAO!

Look on the positive side. They now have an extra one for spare parts...

 

[ra990]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/etihad.asp

 

[AstroManLuca]

:roll:

 

[slsmnaz]

just more proof that there's no way they could have flown into the WTC by themselves

 

[Yreka]

Roses on the bed, Champagne on Ice, and Simpsons on the tube..
Stay classy folks

 

[hiromizu]

striking news. really hit the wall on this one.

 

[lokiju]

Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Muslim Arabs. Read more: "Don't let these people borrow your car. . . - kevintren's posterous" - http://kevintren.posterous.com...ur-car#ixzz0FsVsbgSI&A

Are they implying that the reason it was blocked from being shown on the news is because of that, even though it happened in France?

If so, then WTF is the world coming to?

Originally posted by: ra990
http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/etihad.asp

Ah, so was BS.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: ra990
http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/etihad.asp

Yeah, the applying the term "media blackout" anywhere outside of North Korea or in context of the old Soviet Union always screams bullshit to me.

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: ra990
http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/etihad.asp

snopes ftw

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Adul

Originally posted by: ra990
http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/etihad.asp

snopes ftw

 

[LTC8K6]

Yeah, the pics are real, but the entire story at that website is fake.

 

[SonnyDaze]

What would we do without snopes?

 

[imported_Champ]

haha...nice

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: LTC8K6
Yeah, the pics are real, but the entire story at that website is fake.

Maybe, but that story is much more fun to believe than the truth. After all, blaming a bunch if stupid "camel jockeys" for crashing a plane provides far more LULZ than a story about a French engineer's miscalculations. Now if the French guy would have surrendered...or ran away with his hands in the air...

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: LTC8K6
Yeah, the pics are real, but the entire story at that website is fake.

Maybe, but that story is much more fun to believe than the truth. After all, blaming a bunch if stupid "camel jockeys" for crashing a plane provides far more LULZ than a story about a French engineer's miscalculations. Now if the French guy would have surrendered...or ran away with his hands in the air...

what.. if he would have surrended it would have been what....


typical?

 

[magomago]

lol subtle attempt at Arab bashing?

The story was entertaining nonetheless I wonder how bit the A340-600 is relative to other planes. The OG articles made it seem like it was HUGE....but apparantly it isn't according to the snopes article

 

[BW86]

ouch

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: magomago
lol subtle attempt at Arab bashing?

The story was entertaining nonetheless I wonder how bit the A340-600 is relative to other planes. The OG articles made it seem like it was HUGE....but apparantly it isn't according to the snopes article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F..._planes_comparison.svg

Shorter length, taller height and wider then a 747.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's an oops but why would they let arabs test a plane? They only know how to drive one that is already in the air.

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: magomago
lol subtle attempt at Arab bashing?

The story was entertaining nonetheless I wonder how bit the A340-600 is relative to other planes. The OG articles made it seem like it was HUGE....but apparantly it isn't according to the snopes article

It's the longest airliner ever until the extended Boeing 747-800 comes out. It is pretty big, it carries about as many people as a 747 when configured for 3 class seating (380 v.s. ~415 for 747s). As a comparison, the 4 engines on a 340-600 are just about identical in thrust to the 4 on a 747-400 (the 747 being ~5-8% more powerful).

These are big planes and the fact it was totaled with 0 hours of airtime, no matter the reason, is a big deal. I'm sure ADAT, Airbus nor Etihad are happy about what happened considering how long it takes to build one of these things.

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: magomago
lol subtle attempt at Arab bashing?

The story was entertaining nonetheless I wonder how bit the A340-600 is relative to other planes. The OG articles made it seem like it was HUGE....but apparantly it isn't according to the snopes article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F..._planes_comparison.svg

Shorter length, taller height and wider then a 747.

The 340-600 is the special extended body and higher fuel capacity version for high passenger count long haul international flights.

 

[Baked]

Do Arabs have a knack for crashing planes into structures?

Ps. Dear OP, you suck at making thread titles... and subtitle too.

 

[SilverThief]

stupid fvcks