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1 posted on 03/20/2003 1:00:19 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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2 posted on 03/20/2003 1:05:14 PM PST by Libertarianize the GOP (Ideas have consequences)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Damn ... even the french business community is a bunch of weasels
3 posted on 03/20/2003 1:08:22 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Take charge of your destiny, or someone else will)
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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.
4 posted on 03/20/2003 1:08:43 PM PST by Alberta's Child
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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.

5 posted on 03/20/2003 1:08:48 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Diddle E. Squat
As if they would admit culpability in court.
6 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.)
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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.
7 posted on 03/20/2003 1:12:55 PM PST by Prince Charles
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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!

8 posted on 03/20/2003 1:24:32 PM PST by NYer (God Bless America and protect our troops!)
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"...improper flight operations.."(?)

A BOEING could do Aileron rolls! F*#k ScAirBus!

20 posted on 03/31/2003 7:19:21 AM PST by illumini (AMERICA. Love her or leave her!)
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