Yikes
No doubt President Bush's fault as well.
sad to hear ... prayers for the victims and their families ...
BUMP!
Well that's sad to hear. Sorry about the deaths.
Time to have a talk with the contractors.
Regards,
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
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.
My son landed there this morning 50 minutes after this occured. It'll be interesting to hear what he has to say about it.