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

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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) Más...

Wolfgang Prigge
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paultrubits
paul trubits 3
From the Department of Redundancy Department?
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wopri
Wolfgang Prigge 1
Jep, that's what you get when you change your sentence structure, forgetting to erase the unnecessary part afterwards..... 😉
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bdarnell
bdarnell 2
Google Translate did a pretty good job with that one.
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Quackers
Quackers 2
"what does this button do?"
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wopri
Wolfgang Prigge 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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gregoryheld
Greg Held 2
Thank you that worked well
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wopri
Wolfgang Prigge 1
Sorry, the "to be cancelled" in the headline should be deleted, but I can't edit it out.
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gmfa
gmfa 2
I've edited it for you.
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wopri
Wolfgang Prigge 1
Thanks!
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bobhirst
Robert Hirst 1
I'm guessing that Tunisair can't get there from there.
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30west
30west 1
A smoke break break in the cargo hold gone wild! ;-)
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wopri
Wolfgang Prigge 1
The text say something about smashing something on the fire extinguishers, but you theory might be true.
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gregoryheld
Greg Held 1
How do you read it. It is in French
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wopri
Wolfgang Prigge 1
Google translate gives a fairly good translation.
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jkudlick
Jeremy Kudlick 1
How do you say "oops" in French?
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keroseneboy
Michael Buttimer 3
Zut, alors
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wopri
Wolfgang Prigge 1
French is only the prevailing foreign language in Tunisia Jeremy. The national language is Arabic.
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avihais
Martin Haisman 2
القرف
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wopri
Wolfgang Prigge 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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wopri
Wolfgang Prigge 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
canuck44 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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wopri
Wolfgang Prigge 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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