Concorde Crash Trial Starts

[Mikey]

You forgot the rest.

Fuel tank catches fire. Plane slams into ground. People dead.

Very nasty.

[WolverineSteve]

Suprised to read that they carried only 100 passengers. Must have been a hell of a ride across the pond.

http://home.earthlink.net/~brucegraham/bg_gboaa.html

[Mikey]

Suprised to read that they carried only 100 passengers. Must have been a hell of a ride across the pond.

Probably a little faster than this one:

[Wolfman]

If I recall-- small size and carrying capacity made them financially obsolete. Also the sonic boom made it undesirable for most
US destinations.

[mcet]

Wow... never realized how long the plane was in flight. I was under the impression it all happened pretty fast. Looks like the passengers has plenty of time to crap their pants AND tweet a blog about it.

My dad rode in one. His only comment was it was neat to hear the engines for a short while and then all the sudden you couldn't hear the engines once you break the sound barrier.

[Goober McTuber]

Not a cheap flight, either. By 2000 a round-trip Concorde ticket between New York and Paris cost $8,148.

[Mikey]

The Pan Am Clipper flight supposed cost the equivalent of about $5,000 in 1939, one way. Of course it took a lot longer so the cost per minute wasn't so much. And the seats were bigger.

[Cuda]

You forgot the rest.

Fuel tank catches fire. Plane slams into ground. People dead.

Very nasty.

So what. They were either bureaucrats, or French, or both. I don't see a problem.

[DiT]

Wow... never realized how long the plane was in flight. I was under the impression it all happened pretty fast. Looks like the passengers has plenty of time to crap their pants AND tweet a blog about it.

My dad rode in one. His only comment was it was neat to hear the engines for a short while and then all the sudden you couldn't hear the engines once you break the sound barrier.

damn,long time no see bro

[Diego in Seattle]

The interior also was very cramped, much more than any puddle-jumper.

[smackaholic]

bet it was especially cramped at the moment it augered into the ground.

seems like a really tough case to get a criminal conviction on. I guess if they can prove beyond a doubt that a tech blatantly gundecked a maintenance step, they might have a case. gundeck, btw, is a navy term for intentionally blowing off maintenance steps, then signing them off anyway. in the military it's a really good way to give up a stripe and some $$$$.

[Cuda]

You forgot the rest.

Fuel tank catches fire. Plane slams into ground. People dead.

Very nasty.

So what. They were either bureaucrats, or French, or both. I don't see a problem.

For the record: they were all Germans 'cept for the French crew and 1 American. Maybe 1 other non-German.

your point is...?

[Dr_Phibes]

I remember reading the suit is being brought forward independently by a French lawyer.

The bit of metal that the tire struck came off a Boeing(?) - so he's going after the maintenance people who serviced it. Dead stupid.