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Continental to face manslaughter charges?
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Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:59 pmby Mictheslik
Dont know if this has already been posted.....
French prosecuters have requested manslaughter charges to be brought against Continental regarding the strip of metal from a DC10 that was the cause of the AF Concorde incident in 2000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7291269.stm.mic
Re: Continental to face manslaughter charges?
Posted:
Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:16 pmby Ben R
Pathetic if you ask me
Re: Continental to face manslaughter charges?
Posted:
Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:22 pmby RitterKreuz
dangerous precedent
Re: Continental to face manslaughter charges?
Posted:
Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:24 pmby Chris_F
If this had been a French airline I don't think there would even be a desire to prosecute...
Re: Continental to face manslaughter charges?
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Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:38 pmby Craig.
Okay so lets add, the airport officials to that list who hadn't done the runway inspections, or how about Michelin who didn't make the tyre capable of handling this sort of situation. Or the makers of the plane for not designing it to withstand the accident.
reality is they need to move on.
Re: Continental to face manslaughter charges?
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Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:43 pmby RitterKreuz
or sue the maker of the Concorde for not making the engine and fuel tank areas more impact resistant.
or sue fire
or sue the ground
after all the ground is the leading cause of 100% of plane crashes!
Re: Continental to face manslaughter charges?
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Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:46 pmby expat
Or how about suing Air France maintenance for leaving out a spacer assembly that held the front two wheel assemblies straight and apart so that they would not shake themselves to death under acceleration (shopping trolley principle). A spacer that was found on the shelf in the hanger and missing from the recovered landing gear. It was found by the UK team investigating the accident, but the French did not want to know. As for a small strip of metal on the runway, sorry I don't buy it as the reason. In fact anyone who wants to try and cut a main wheel tyre, come down to my hanger and I will supply the axe for you to try.
However whist we are on a roll, how about suing Air France's training department. The flight engineer who shut down the engine without authority of the pilot some 20kts below a safe handling speed for two engines, that can be clearly head on the cockpit tapes. Or how about taking off with a tail wind of 15 kts and 2 tons over weight. All available to see in black and white in the accident report...........but which the French say played no part in the accident. Sorry, did we forget to also mention that at the time Air France was being privatised.
Matt