Yikes
Posted on 05/23/2004 12:24:14 AM PDT by HAL9000
PARIS (Reuters) - Four people have been killed and more than 10 hurt when part of a roof collapsed in a departure lounge at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle international airport near Paris, LCI television has reported.Airport officials did not immediately confirm the death toll on Sunday. A fire official said there appeared to have been deaths but was unable to give details.
No doubt President Bush's fault as well.
sad to hear ... prayers for the victims and their families ...
It's always Bush's fault!!!
In the alternative, is it possible that that fat bastard Roger Moore was trudging across the departure lounge with is big fat French trophy from that crap-ass documentary that won at Cannes and he caused the roof collapse?
BUMP!
Roger Moore = Michael Moore. Leave it to me to equate 007 with a sniviling liberal twit.
I concur. Pray for their families and the wounded even though I find the politics of President Jacques Chirac and the proportion of French who either support him or his socialist counterparts repulsive.
For me, French-bashing takes somewhere else, away from this topic...
Well that's sad to hear. Sorry about the deaths.
I used to like Roger Moore until he morphed into that despicable slob, Michael Moore.
Time to have a talk with the contractors.
Regards,
There can be no doubt...Its either Bush's fault or the Jooos
The assessment is still provisional: six people died and at least three others wounded Sunday morning in the collapse of a part of the roof on a footbridge with the terminal 2 E of the airport of Roissy, according to firemen's on the spot who specify that the days of the three wounded ones are not in danger. Three police officers figurerent among deaths, according to an airport source.
Around 7 a.m. (Paris time), voûtains, concrete elements of the roof, fell on a footbridge from loading from this terminal brought into service on June 25, 2003. The footbridge would be in its ploughed up turn. The helps are helped in their operations of research by a cynophile team.
"LIKE A SEISM"
The terminal 2E was evacuated. Approximately 200 firemen were on the spot whereas several flights were diverted towards the airport of Orly, in the south of Paris, always of airport source. The spokesman of the firemen of Paris, the captain Laurent Vibert, specified that one of the casualties "was imprisoned" under the debris. "Several tons of concrete broke down in a waiting area of loading", has it says.
The Vibert captain specified that concrete rubble and glasses were accumulated on about fifteen meters height and on about thirty meters length. Teams of clearing and helps with dogs of research are on the spot. "It is as for a seism", said the spokesman of the firemen. "a part of the roof of the departure lounge of the terminal 2 E broke down for unknown reasons", declared a spokesman of Airports of Paris.
"We do not have any information on the reasons of this collapse", it added, specifying that the building had been evacuated. The red plan was started which makes it possible to mobilize important means.
The prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis, Michel Sappin, went on the spot of the accident as well as the director of the airport of Roissy Rene Brun. The Minister for transport, Gilles de Robien, declared on the spot that "nothing indicates that it is an attack", even if the precise causes of the collapse of a part of the roof are not yet known. "One cannot conclude before the intervention from the experts but nothing indicates that it is an attack". "president (Jacques Chirac) and the Prime Minister wish that an investigation be diligentée as quickly as possible, probably a judicial enquiry", it added.
Of recent construction, the terminal 2 E of Roissy-CDG was inaugurated in 2003. It is used by the French company Air France and the companies members of air alliance Sky TEAM. Its design and its construction involved an investment of 750 million euros. The terminal 2E had been brought into service on June 25, 2003 with one week of delay on the date envisaged, because the commission of safety had not given its approval on June 17. Trade union CGT in particular had shown ADP and of Air France to have opened this terminal with forced march.
JACQUES CHIRAC EXPRESSES SA "COMPASSION"
President Jacques Chirac expressed Sunday "his very deep compassion" after the accident and requested that "the investigations necessary be immediately committed". "the president of the Republic learned with a very sharp emotion the drama to the Charles airport from Gaulle. He expresses his very deep compassion with the families of the victims and to the casualties ", the Elysium indicated, in an official statement. The Head of the State "asks that the investigations necessary be immediately committed so that the causes of this accident are as soon as possible given", added the Elysium.
With AFP and Reuters
Yikes
Is that a truck about center photo where the column should be?
Here's a snip from the latest Reuters article.
Officials said they did not know what caused the collapse at a terminal which opened only last summer at a cost of $900 million. It opened late, partly because a commission at first withheld a safety certificate.
"Some people heard cracks before the accident and there was concrete dust coming from the ceiling."
Note to self, cracking noises & concrete dust falling from ceiling isn't a good sign, run!
Could be, did it hit a pillar or just got crushed when it fell?
"Could be, did it hit a pillar or just got crushed when it fell?"---According to other accounts, the truck was parked beneath the structure prior to the collapse.
That's certainly something to look at. If there isn't some specific cause, you have to wonder why they let people into the rest of the building. It could all be defective and a deathtrap.
Next, I’m going to be told they are going to name an aircraft after Charles de Gaulle.
Have the French surrendered yet? I think they should, just in case.
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