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You forgot the rest.

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

Very nasty.

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

WolverineSteve wrote: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:

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

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.

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

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.

Mikey wrote: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.

mcet wrote: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

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

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 $$$$.

Sudden Sam wrote:

Cuda wrote:

Mikey wrote: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...?

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.