Probe: Four Doors Failed in Toronto Crash (Airbus)

Associated Press/AP Online ^ | 8/6/2005 | Associated Press/AP Online

[Bon mots]

Lemme get this straight...

A French pilot flying for a French airline skids on Japanese tires off a badly designed Canadian runway, crashing a European designed airframe, whereby the German built fuselage snaps in half and the European aircraft bursts into flames and passengers disembark before the Canadian rescuers arrive...

...but somehow this is America's fault!

Now it turns out that only one door MAY have malfunctioned (damaged in the crash), as the other three were blocked by the flaming EUROPEAN designed aircraft.

[dila813]

ain't it wonderful that they only mention the American Manufacture.

[El Gato]

No longer black.

They are supposed to be "International Orange". That one doesn't look as if it ever was. Beings as it was a French plane, it was probably saffron yellow.

[usafsk]

Huh? It was built in France, Germany, the US, Spain, and elsewhere. Are you serious? A modern passenger jet includes hundreds of thousands of parts from around the world. Where it is finally assembled is of little importance. If the engine failed, perhaps manufactured by GE Aircraft Engines near my home here in Ohio, is that not important? If a US-manufactured part fails, is that more important than where the plane was assembled. Hard to figure out what your point is, honestly.

[aposiopetic]

...but somehow this is America's fault!

Bush's fault.