Concorde: Judge puts Continental on trial for manslaughter


	Concorde: Judge puts Continental on trial for manslaughter
righthand
7-4-2008 11:08 AM
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In 2004, French investigators blamed the disaster on a strip of metal that fell on to the runway from a Continental Airlines DC-10. This was found to have burst the Concorde's tyres, which ruptured the plane's fuel tanks as they broke up.
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7-4-2008 3:35 PM
carrerinyes
7-5-2008 4:09 AM
righthand
Isn't extraordinary and yet so simple the factors that come together to produce an honorific accident? Leave any one of these smaller events out and ...

One lesson that life has thought me is never to doubt coincidence no matter how unlikely. As with accidents.
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