I think it was an LFA? (Large French Aircraft)
As far I read the newspaper this morning including a picture of the plane
while taking off it was Air France. The picture showed a long flame and
smoke coming from the
engine(s).
The crash possibly was caused by one engine being blown. As the engines are
mounted beside eachother, the plane becomes impossible to control, because a
blown engine easily can damage its neighbour engine.
A 747 has its engines more apart from eachother, although its no guarantee a
defect engine cannot affect the nearby engine as shown in the Amsterdam
crash a few years ago, where an Israel Jumbo lost one engine which hit the
second one leaving the plane only with two engines on one side.
Cheers,
Hans
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Macy [mailto:macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu]
Sent: dinsdag 25 juli 2000 21:16
To: Spridgets; MG List
Subject: Concorde Crash
In case you hadn't heard - a Concorde went down in Paris today. This is
the first time that one has crashed in over 3 years. 113 people perished.
4 in the hotel the plane hit.
I know it's not really LBC related but it is LBA related (Large British
Aircraft).
Larry
See
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/international/france-concorde-crash
or
http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/07/25/concorde.crash.07/index.html
Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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