Paris Airport Terminal Collapses; 5 Dead

AP ^ | 05/23/04 | JOCELYN GECKER

[Klaus D. Deore]

This is obviously Bush's fault.

[shaggy eel]

,,, the roof just... surrendered.

[rageaholic]

put gay designers in charge of building an airport instead of engineers, and 5 people pay the ultimate price for some crap eye candy.

[crz]

Must be kind of like that infamous aircraft carrier they flaunted around. You know..the one that they couldnt land planes on because it was short. The one where the prop fell off from et al.

[DB]

"Must be kind of like that infamous aircraft carrier they flaunted around. You know..the one that they couldnt land planes on because it was short. The one where the prop fell off from et al."

Ya but I bet it was all nice and pretty... You know, form before function...

[Thinkin' Gal]

"The consequences are obviously grave for us since we have to manage the movement of planes with one less terminal, grave in terms of image since this was our showcase jewel," said Pierre Graff, president of Aeroports de Paris, which runs Paris' airports.

Yeah. The Hope diamond.

[Gator113]

"Must be kind of like that infamous aircraft carrier they flaunted around. You know..the one that they couldnt land planes on because it was short."

Now THAT's funny...I had not heard of it. ...It's sooooo French!!

[shaggy eel]

,,, one terminal down will mean pressure on the others and maybe even a little more traffic thru Orley for a while. There, an answer is never far away. Wouldn't it be great if we could all just surrender and throw up our arms when something goes wrong?

[ken5050]

May I remind you all that these are the same people who are currently building an 800+ seat airliner.....

[kcar]

So it wasn't terror-related. It just collapsed.

Is that supposed to be comforting?

[LADY J]

Any pictures of that 'French jewel'? I'd love to see the design they came up with.

[KOZ.]

"Must be kind of like that infamous aircraft carrier they flaunted around. You know..the one that they couldnt land planes on because it was short. The one where the prop fell off from et al. "


i believe it was called the 'charles de gaulle' too.

maybe 'charles de gaulle' is french for 'we make crappe'.

[Blood of Tyrants]

There is a saying, the French copy no one and no one copies the French. Now, you know why.

[shaggy eel]

,,, AIRBUS is a Toulouse based consortium of French and British inputs. In fairness, AIRBUS models are used with confidence by US operators.

[al baby]

What did one snail say to the other snail?


















Where did you learn to eat escargot like that

[ken5050]

picky, picky..I was trying, hard, for a humor, satire, irony.....you., my friend, are no doubt either an engineer or a programmer...(G)

[shaggy eel]

[shaggy eel]

,,, I'm a high school dropout, nothing more.

[teletech]

May I remind you all that these are the same people who are currently building an 800+ seat airliner.....

EXACTLY what I thought of first after reading this story. Beware of the "Air Bus".