Paris airport roof collapse kills four

[Hagar]

Just heard about this on the radio news. I visited Charles de Gaulle airport in October last year. The terminals are built in several storeys & very impressive. If it's a fault in the design or materials I suspect this could be serious.

Paris airport roof collapse kills four
 
At least four people have been killed and several hurt after a roof collapsed at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport.
The reason for the collapse in terminal 2E, a newly-constructed part of the international airport, was not immediately clear.

"Several tonnes of concrete and glass have collapsed," Laurent Vibert, a spokesman for the fire service told LCI television.

The accident took place at 0700 (0500 GMT). The area has been evacuated.

The French Transport Minister, Gilles de Robien, is due to visit the scene.

Reports say sections of a roof fell onto a boarding footway. The passage in turn collapsed onto airport service vehicles parked underneath.

One report said that five people had died, three of them police.

Police are reported to be trying to reach people trapped in the rubble.

Terminal 2E cost 750m euros to build and was opened in 2003. It is used by Air France and the Sky Team alliance.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3739715.stm

[Smoke2much]

That's not nice.  A horrible way to die.  

The knock on effects of this for the French Air industry could be bad

[ozzy72]

I just heard about this. Terrible
I'll bet a fair wad of money its sub-standard materials that caused the problem! There were quite a few delays on this construction so I get the funny feeling some 'short-cuts' were taken, and this is the terrible consequence

Ozzy

[ATI_7500]

Six dead,according to a german news site...

[Craig.]

definatly not a good thing to happen, the french need to do something about their boarding bridges remember the QM incident

[tsunami_KNUW]

How sad...its strange to occur at such a large airport  :'(