RE: Concorde Crash

["Harrison, Mark (Alliance)" <mark.harrison@xxxxxxx>]

I was in Madrid on the day it happened. I got back that evening, without
hearing about it. The first I knew was when my wife said "you're home
safely", and burst into tears...

Make you think, though ;-(

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 30 July 2000 19:47
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Concorde Crash


Hi all, I may have been conspicuous by my absence for the past 2 weeks, I
been off in sunny Portugal for my hols. Hence why I was asking about X10
daemons for unix, I wanted to have the lights come on and off while I was
away.

On the subject below, The only English language channel I could find on TV
was Sky News, so I spent the last week watching pictures of planes crash,
set on fire and explanations of how flying is dangerous etc etc, you can
imagine, I was a little nervous sitting in the airport yesterday :-)

At 17:11 25/07/00 +0100, you wrote:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_850000/850903.stm
>
>A Concorde jet bound for New York has crashed shortly after taking off
from
>Paris, killing about 100 people.
>The Air France aircraft crashed in flames into a Relais Bleu hotel in
the
>town of Gonesse north of the capital, two minutes after take-off from
>Charles de Gaulle airport.
>
>Eyewitnesses said the aircraft was not able to gain sufficient altitude
>before it crashed.
>
>"I saw the Concorde go by with its left side engine on fire and
crash a bit
>further away, about two minutes after taking off," one witness
told the
>French news agency AFP.
>
>A spokesman for Air France said the flight had been specially chartered
by
>the German tour operator Deilmann.
>
>First crash
>
>The crash is the first of the supersonic jet built by Britain and
France.
>
>It comes a day after British Airways confirmed hairline cracks had been
>discovered in the wings of all seven of its Concorde fleet.
>
>The Concorde has been considered among the world's safest planes.
>
>Its only major scare came in 1979, when a bad landing blew out a
plane's
>tyres. The incident led to a design modification.
>
>The first of the aircraft flew in 1969. Air France and British Airways
>operate 13 of the supersonic jets.
>
>Air France officials have said in the past that their current fleet is
fit
>to fly safely until 2007.
>
>More details are still coming in.
>
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