It's uncanny how often I get ludicrous fantasy FWD's from my right wing friends. I'm not saying that the left doesn't occasionally fall for phony internet fabrication but honestly, I get the feeling that many right wingers just automatically think that because something happened to land in their in-box, it is true.
I end up sending out Snopes corrections several times a week as a result. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > Racist and false: http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/etihad.asp > > From: wle...@... [mailto:wle...@...] > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 10:58 AM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Cc: r...@... > Subject: Fwd: FW: $200 Million air bus...loved the last line.THIS IS A MUST > SEE ! > > > > > _____ > > From: p...@... > To: p...@... > Sent: 4/23/2010 9:18:58 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time > Subj: FW: $200 Million air bus...loved the last line.THIS IS A MUST SEE ! > > > > Paul > > _____ > > From: Anita Stackhouse [mailto:anitaswatercol...@...] > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 12:34 PM > To: aaharring...@...; eme...@...; esqs...@...; > fillets...@...; folks...@...; bruin...@...; p...@...; > roannewe...@...; drsmais...@...; > tleste...@... > Subject: Fw: $200 Million air bus...loved the last line.THIS IS A MUST SEE ! > > > > <woodr...@...>Subject: Fw: $200 Million air bus...loved the last > line. > > > > > > > > > This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the longest passenger airplane ever > built, sits just outside 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 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 were smart 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 due to the > > 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. > > > A French Airbus: $200 million dollars > > Untrained Arab Flight Crew: $300,000 Yearly Salary > Unread Operating Manual: $300 > > Aircraft meets retaining wall, and the wall wins. > PRICELESS!!! > "that's why God gave them camels"! > > > You think? <http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/smi/0201e0309f/05> > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 5049 (20100422) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com <http://www.eset.com/> >
