Re: Continental Airlines summonsed over Concorde crash
"Sam Whitman" <sam.whitman@nospam.ca> wrote in message
news:422FC168.1EF66CBF@nospam.ca...[color=blue]
> newsair wrote:
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>> Continental Airlines summonsed over Concorde crash
>>
>> PARIS (AFP) - The US company Continental Airlines was widely expected
>> to be placed under judicial investigation over its role in the
>> Concorde crash five years ago which a report found was triggered by a
>> piece of metal that fell from a Continental DC-10.
>>
>> Ken Burt, the American vice-president of the company's technical
>> division, appeared early afternoon before an examining magistrate for
>> a "first questioning with a view to being place under investigation,"
>> according to judicial sources.
>>
>> The company itself was also likely to be placed under investigation
>> for "involuntary homicide and injuries," they said.
>>
>> Under French law a judicial investigation is normally a first step
>> towards eventual criminal charges.
>>
>> A judicial enquiry into the crash of the supersonic airliner near
>> Charles de Gaulle airport in July 2000 concluded in December that a
>> titanium alloy strip fell from the Continental Airlines DC-10 that
>> took off just before the Concorde.
>>
>> The piece of metal punctured the Concorde's tyre, sending debris
>> upwards into the fuel tank which then exploded. All 109 people on
>> board as well as four people on the ground were killed.[/color]
>
> What nonsense. Charge Continental for homicide, involuntarily or not?[/color]
They are posturing for cash and to shift the blame to another party. Parts
fall off planes all the time. They don't bring down airliners... except for
one.
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