Arien i'm not sure where you got your info from...but this is no made up story!

The airline has to send staff to receive and test the aircraft. In this case as previously mentioned it was staff from Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies who were representing Ethiad in Toulouse.

Although the incident took place almost a year ago the full story is yet to be released. This is due to Etihad asking Airbus to keep any conclusion or results from the investigation to be kept between the two companies.