After starring at this picture thinking what a complete twat Carlos Tevez looks like, i suddenly realised the new sponsor ‘Etihad Airways’… now, i dont think anyone seen this before, but i received one of those work emails you get sent with jokes on it about 6 months ago, here it is. (click ‘read full article’ and scroll to bottom if you cant be assed to read it)

“The brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, 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 runups, 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 takeoff but it 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 fools the aircraft into thinking it is 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 smart enough to throttle
back the engines from their max power setting, so the $200 million
brand-new aircraft crashed into a blast barrier, totalling 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 Moslem Arabs. Finally, the photos are
starting to leak out.”

lets hope Man City’s season doesnt crash and burn like it did last year

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