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Old 18th Feb 2004, 16:34
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Isn't politics amazing.

Here we have an aircraft exploding in flight, and the investigators put it down to a fuel system weakness, but the aircraft type is allowed to continue to fly.

We have another, smaller aircraft from the same manufacturer which has had a number of crashes which are so far unexplained but the finger of suspicion is pointing at the rudder trim or yaw damper system (can't remember which), but that model is also allowed to continue to fly.

Then we have that large three engined aircraft suffering a catastrophic fire off Canada, crashing into the sea, identified as a fault with the IFE, but what about the aircraft design which allowed the fire to spread so quickly with such disastrous consequences, but what the heck, let's allow the aircraft to keep flying anyway.

But Concorde, which crashed as a rusult of an EXTERNAL factor, ie, runway debris, is grounded for over a year, and eventually killed off.

As I said, isn't politics a curious thing?
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