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Untrained ground crew causes cancellation of first commercial flight of brand-new Tunisair A330

Übermittelt vor 8 Jahren

An incident with the fire extinguishers in the cargo hold of the brand-new Tunisair A330 caused cancellation of the first commercial flight today. Untrained workers set off the fire extinguishers, apparently the oxygen masks for the passengers were also deployed. Warning to anybody allergic to French! The link leads to a French language publication! (www.investir-en-tunisie.net) Mehr...

Wolfgang Prigge

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paul trubits vor 8 Jahren 3

From the Department of Redundancy Department?

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Wolfgang Prigge vor 8 Jahren 1

Jep, that's what you get when you change your sentence structure, forgetting to erase the unnecessary part afterwards..... ð

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bdarnell vor 8 Jahren 2

Google Translate did a pretty good job with that one.

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Quackers vor 8 Jahren 2

"what does this button do?"

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Wolfgang Prigge vor 8 Jahren 1

This button sends a brand new airplane back to Hamburg for a special clean-up job! LOL

http://www.netairspace.com/photos/TS-IFM/Tunisair/Airbus_A330-243/HAM_EDDH_Hamburg_Fuhlsbuettel/photo_78416/

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Greg Held vor 8 Jahren 2

Thank you that worked well

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Wolfgang Prigge vor 8 Jahren 1

Sorry, the "to be cancelled" in the headline should be deleted, but I can't edit it out.

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gmfa vor 8 Jahren 2

I've edited it for you.

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Wolfgang Prigge vor 8 Jahren 1

Thanks!

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Robert Hirst vor 8 Jahren 1

I'm guessing that Tunisair can't get there from there.

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30west vor 8 Jahren 1

A smoke break break in the cargo hold gone wild! ;-)

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Wolfgang Prigge vor 8 Jahren 1

The text say something about smashing something on the fire extinguishers, but you theory might be true.

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Greg Held vor 8 Jahren 1

How do you read it. It is in French

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Wolfgang Prigge vor 8 Jahren 1

Google translate gives a fairly good translation.

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Jeremy Kudlick vor 8 Jahren 1

How do you say "oops" in French?

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Michael Buttimer vor 8 Jahren 3

Zut, alors

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Wolfgang Prigge vor 8 Jahren 1

French is only the prevailing foreign language in Tunisia Jeremy. The national language is Arabic.

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Martin Haisman vor 8 Jahren 2

القرف

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Wolfgang Prigge vor 8 Jahren 1

I'll have to find out if that's the correct word in Arabic to use in the context. :)
I'll come back to you as soon as I get an answer.

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Wolfgang Prigge vor 8 Jahren 1

Martin, my contact told me that the correct word in Arabic is عفوا, but he is sometimes a bit too formal, so your القرف might be correct in colloquial language.

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canuck44 vor 8 Jahren 0

Unlike the Gimli Glider they didn't get it in the air after a translations problem...metric, French, English, gallons and pounds.

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Wolfgang Prigge vor 8 Jahren 1

It's even more complicated than that John, the language in Tunisia is Arabic. ;)
Looks like someone bumped something on the fire extinguishing system, setting off the chain of events.

I guess that's what you get when you let unqualified people play with you new toy.

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Untrained ground crew causes cancellation of first commercial flight of brand-new Tunisair A330

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