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Runway Debris Cited in Concorde Crash |
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07/23/2004 ] |
PARIS - The crash of an Air France Concorde in 2000 was caused in part by the extreme hardness of debris that punctured the plane's tire, a French investigation has found, judicial officials said Wednesday.
A stray strip of metal from another airliner that pierced the supersonic plane's tire on a Paris runway contained titanium, making it unusually hard, the officials said on condition of anonymity.
The sleek-nosed jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris' Charles de Gaulle on July 25, 2000, diving into a small hotel. The crash killed the 109 people on the aircraft — mostly Germans — and four people at the hotel.
Experts laid out their conclusions to an investigating judge, state prosecutors and lawyers for victims' families at an informal meeting Tuesday in the northern Paris suburb of Pontoise, officials said.
"The strip that should have been in stainless steel turned out to be made of titanium, a stronger alloy that made the plane's tire burst and set off a chain reaction that led to the Concorde crash," said Jerome Boursican, a lawyer for a pilots' union that is a civil party to the legal case over the crash.
In January 2002, a 400-page government report confirmed the long-held theory that a piece of debris from a Continental Airlines plane was a factor in the accident.
The report by France's Accident Investigation Bureau said the crash could not have been foreseen but faulted sloppy operations by Air France and Houston-based Continental.
A call to Continental was not immediately returned Wednesday.
According to the report, a Continental DC-10 shed a piece of metal known as a wear strip onto a runway that the Concorde later used for takeoff. The strip caused a Concorde tire to burst, sending rubber debris into the fuel tanks and sparking a fuel leak and fire that brought the plane down.
The government report alleged the strip was not properly installed. A judicial official on Wednesday said the titanium strip was a replacement part on the Continental plane.
The experts' report is expected to be formally provided to an investigating judge in September, which could lead to the first criminal charges in the case, the officials said.
By PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD, Associated Press Writer
Source Yahoo
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Concorde enthusiasts' auction. UPDATE 03/22 |
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02/21/2004 ] |
British Airways is to auction more than 150,000 Concorde items through an online webcast in conjunction with DoveBid Inc.
The four-day event run by DoveBid will take place between Wednesday 14 and Saturday 17 April, 2004 at Stoneleigh Park near Coventry, England with a simultaneous internet webcast to worldwide bidders.
The online event will build on the success of a Concorde auction held in December 2003 which raised money for children’s charity Get Kids Going.
Items for sale in the April auction will include a nose-cone, cockpit instruments, on-board computers, seats, on-board kitchen equipment, engines and their components, lights, sensors, crockery and cutlery.
Martin George, British Airways’ marketing director, said: “We are thrilled to be giving Concorde enthusiasts a second chance to buy Concorde memorabilia. We were encouraged to hold another auction by the vast number of letters and phone calls British Airways received from the public asking if we would be selling more items. The technology that DoveBid uses will also cater for people bidding from overseas who weren’t able to come to the last auction in London.”
Ross Dove, chairman and chief executive officer of DoveBid, said: “Dovebid is pleased to conduct this monumental webcast auction of Concorde memorabilia for British Airways. Thousands of bidders from around the world will be able to purchase a piece of Concorde history by competing in a live auction broadcast in real time over the internet.”
To participate in the auction, buyers can bid live via the internet at www.dovebid.com or attend in person. To preview assets, visit www.dovebid.com.
NOTA : actually the catalog is not on line and DoveBid is not currently accepting webcast registrations for this event.
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The catalog can be purchase via this url. The total amount, with shipping, cost 42 USD.
Also, you can register to bid here.
N.B : principal page of this auction.
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