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Concorde Crashes On Landing, Killing 113JULY 25, 2000 · 13:42
The supersonic airliner came down short of the runway at Charles de Gaulle after a tyre burst on the previous landing, caught fire, and struck an adjacent small plane. There were 113 people aboard. It was the first fatal Concorde accident in its 27-year history.
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PARIS, July 25 -- An Air France Concorde crashed on landing at Charles de Gaulle this evening, killing all 113 people aboard. A wheel had burst on the aircraft's previous flight from New York and a strip of rubber had been left on the runway; the wheels of the aircraft caught it and the aircraft went down approximately two kilometres short of the runway.
Concorde had not crashed in twenty-seven years of service. It had, until today, been almost implausibly safe, and that reputation is what allowed it to exist at all: the economics of the aircraft depended on nobody ever finding out what it would cost when it went wrong.
There was another aircraft on the runway at the time. It stopped.
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AskDr_Internet
Joined: Mar 2003 · Posts: 3105
· the www · 2 minutes later
AskDr_Internet wrote:
both sides of this are wrong about different things and both are yelling about it in the same font size my cousin was over there. he says it is nothing like it looks like on the tv. the tv lies. the tv always lied.
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CannotReadNoPunctuation
Joined: Nov 2000 · Posts: 1766
· unknown · an hour later
the reporter is obviously a plant. read the third paragraph again. READ IT AGAIN.
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DELETED_BY_MODS
Joined: May 2003 · Posts: 5
· banned · same afternoon
SADDAM MUST GO. that is all i have to say about it.
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KrazyKarl
Joined: Mar 2000 · Posts: 4102
· Wausau, WI · that evening
i support our troops and i also support our country and i also think we should have asked somebody first. those are not contradictory opinions, whoever you are.
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RealityCheckInbox
Joined: Aug 2002 · Posts: 350
· the fact-check bin · the next morning
i want to say: this happened. it is not a theory. it happened to people who have names. that is all.
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SomeDudeInAButtonUp
Joined: Jan 2000 · Posts: 3011
· Tucson, AZ · the following day
SomeDudeInAButtonUp wrote:
Concorde Crashes On Landing, Killing 113 both sides of this are wrong about different things and both are yelling about it in the same font size
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TruthTeller69
Joined: Mar 2003 · Posts: 654
· Akron, OH · two days later
i keep reading the comments hoping someone will post something that makes it make sense. it is not going to make sense.
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dont_feed_the_trolls
Joined: Jun 2003 · Posts: 1980
· mod · a week later
nobody wants this war. i don't want this war. i think a lot of people in this country don't want this war.
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mommy_its_me
Joined: Feb 2004 · Posts: 301
· over there · 2 minutes later
mommy_its_me wrote:
i support our troops and i also support our country and i also think we should have asked somebody first. thos... the fact that this is on the internet means 400 people agree with it and 400 people think it is the worst thing ever written. that is how it works now.
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