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Airplane Maker Airbus Industrie Blames American Airlines for 2001 NYC Crash That Killed 265
AP via Tampa Bay Online ^
| 3/20/03
| AP
Posted on 03/20/2003 1:00:18 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: *AA Flight 587
To: Diddle E. Squat
Damn ... even the french business community is a bunch of weasels
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posted on
03/20/2003 1:08:22 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(Take charge of your destiny, or someone else will)
To: Diddle E. Squat
I said from Day 1 that any theories about terrorism in this case would be clarified once the civil lawsuits started.
To: Diddle E. Squat
"...failed to operate the aircraft in the manner that was foreseeable and normal or intended by Airbus."Yeah. They tried to fly it.
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posted on
03/20/2003 1:08:48 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: Diddle E. Squat
As if they would admit culpability in court.
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posted on
03/20/2003 1:09:49 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Diddle E. Squat
Boeing makes their planes with the vertical stabilizer firmly attached to the aft bulkhead with a strong spar. The French, on the other hand, built their Airbus with no such spar -- the entire vertical stabilizer attaches via 6 bolts on the top of the fuselage, making for a much weaker joint. The $64 question is why did those joints fail? My guess is that the plane should never have been built this way, hence, a design flaw, courtesy of France.
To: Diddle E. Squat
As I recall, the French Aviation Administration also blamed an american airline - Continental Airlines - for the crash of the Concorde. Didn't they claim that something fell off of the Continental aircraft (serviced, mind you, by french airport workers at CDG) and that caused the tire to blow on the Concorde.
Everyone is to blame, except them. Yeah, right!
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posted on
03/20/2003 1:24:32 PM PST
by
NYer
(God Bless America and protect our troops!)
To: Prince Charles
Well, presuming American Airlines survives its upcoming bankruptcy, lets hope they get the message and buy Boeing aircraft from here on out. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you, nothing like giving a giant F U to one of your biggest customers.
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posted on
03/20/2003 1:27:19 PM PST
by
CdMGuy
To: Prince Charles
We've got a saying out here in WA state:
If it's not Boeing, I'm not going
To: Alberta's Child
I believe it was terrorism. How about you?
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posted on
03/22/2003 3:48:24 PM PST
by
gg188
To: CdMGuy
American hasn't bought an Airbus in eight years.
Nobody's buying any aircraft from anybody for the foreseeable future.
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posted on
03/22/2003 3:55:04 PM PST
by
sinkspur
To: gg188
I really have no idea. But I do know one thing -- if there is any truth to those eyewitness accounts about the plane being brought down by a missile, then was NOT terrorism.
To: gg188
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posted on
03/22/2003 8:06:47 PM PST
by
ez
(Advise and Consent = Debate and VOTE!!)
To: Alberta's Child
said from Day 1 that any theories about terrorism in this case would be clarified once the civil lawsuits started. I suppose -- in the sense that it's not terrorism. This sounds like Airbus engaging in CYA about a structural failure of the vertical stabilizer -- which probably means that Airbus is at least partly at fault.
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posted on
03/22/2003 8:07:07 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: Alberta's Child
Flt. 587 Eyewitnesses Insist Explosion Came Before Tail Broke Off
Newsmax ^ | 12/3/1 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Monday Dec. 3, 2001; 11:07 a.m. EST
Flt. 587 Eyewitnesses Insist Explosion Came Before Tail Broke Off
Two eyewitness to the Nov. 12 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 said over the weekend that investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board are wrong to focus on potential structural defects as the cause of the disaster - insisting instead that the plane's tail came off over New York's Jamaica Bay only after it exploded in a fireball.
"It was after the explosion," eyewitness Tom Lynch, a retired firefighter, told the New York Post. "I'm telling you, the tail was there until the second explosion."
"No tail fell off, not before the explosion. I swear to that," Lynch told the paper's Steve Dunleavy.
The eyewitness said there was absolutely no doubt about what he saw.
"I had my head up taking in that beautiful, clear day and was staring straight at the plane. It made a bank turn and suddenly there was an explosion, orange and black, on the right-hand side of the fuselage. It was a small explosion, about half the size of a car."
He continued:
"The plane kept on going straight for about two or three seconds as if nothing had happened, then vwoof' - the second, big explosion on the right wing, orange and black. It was only then that the plane fell apart. It was after the explosion and I'm telling you, the tail was there until the second explosion."
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posted on
03/22/2003 8:10:01 PM PST
by
ez
(Advise and Consent = Debate and VOTE!!)
To: gg188
My stupid mistake -- I've gotten this mixed up with Flight 800. LOL.
To: ez; gg188
Regardless of whether it was terrorism or not, there is something about some of these crashed that just ain't right.
Notice how many "mysterious" plane crashes there have been over the last ten years or so, and notice that almost every one of them involved a flight that originated at New York's Kennedy Airport.
To: onedoug
Yeah. They tried to fly it.LOL! Excellent. Yeah, if you just taxi all day, the tail fin won't fall off. Plus, even if it does, you're safe as you've already landed!!
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posted on
03/22/2003 8:35:37 PM PST
by
meyer
To: Diddle E. Squat
"...improper flight operations.."(?)
A BOEING could do Aileron rolls! F*#k ScAirBus!
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posted on
03/31/2003 7:19:21 AM PST
by
illumini
(AMERICA. Love her or leave her!)
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