Continental Airlines and mechanic guilty in deadly Concorde crash

[LearLove]

"The charges had said the engineers could have acted much earlier to correct well-known design flaws in the plane."

yeah but it's OK to still blame a randome mechanic and airline, whatever.

 

[Ex737Driver]

The crew also shut down the remaining engine on the left side with the other only producing little power. Concorde fixed the tire burst problem with Kevlar plates under the wing tanks and non-burst tires. If you do that after a crash, you gotta know that it was flawed from the beginning.

 

[inline]

And in an unrelated story, France surrendered today.

 

[lowtimedriver]

someone needs to let the Germans loose again

+1 and fast......

 

[4mr72drvr]

Did anyone really think a French court was not going to find fault with a US carrier? Do you really think they would find fault with a French carrier & French (also British) plane?

 

[Secret Squirrel]

The NTSB also does a poor job of finding real issues and correcting the problems.

Actually the NTSB does a great job in finding the real issues. It is the FAA that does a lousy job of taking those recommendations and making them law.

 

[redflyer65]

What he said ^^^^^^^

 

[batsky2000]

Actually the NTSB does a great job in finding the real issues. It is the FAA that does a lousy job of taking those recommendations and making them law.

Correct!! By law, the NTSB can only make recommendations to the FAA, they have no power to enforce anything. Its up to the FAA to take action, which if they do anything, it usually takes decades for them to change a problem.....

 

[Mr. Johnson]

"The charges had said the engineers could have acted much earlier to correct well-known design flaws in the plane."

yeah but it's OK to still blame a randome mechanic and airline, whatever.

French spelling?

 

[BornAgainPagan]

Now there is a surprise, blame someone else.

Did you even read the article? It assigned 30% of the blame to EADS.


As for some of the other posts in this thread, I knew it wouldn't take long for some idiots to mindlessly post anti-French rhetoric along the lines of "Freedom Fries"