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Old 7th Feb 2010, 18:55
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captplaystation
 
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You have a bit of an anti-BA obsession little S.F.L.Y.

No discussion on this accident is possible without you dragging BA into the argument.

No discussion on Turkish Airlines is possible without you somewhat myopically comparing it to BA038.

I will tell you two differences in what would have happened, the BA flight engineer would assuredly not have "jumped the gun " and shut down engine No2, and there was no Le Bourget at the end of any of Heathrows runways, so, endgame possibly all dead anyhow.

This is of course pre-assuming the BA aircraft would have left the hangar with a missing spacer & made its way to the runway for an illegal downwind take -off, in any case probably overweight & possibly out of C.G., with possibly unaccounted for baggage, and using a runway that was at best substandard in its surface characteristics.

If you want to slag off BA Concorde operations at least find decent ammunition & remind us all again about the erstwhile fleet-god who landed @ LHR & had to be towed to stand courtesy of his unwillingness to listen to the rest of the crew & divert to SNN/PIK (anywhere ) but instead complete the mission to LHR.Of course, as a mere "teenager" in this business, perhaps your memory doesn't go that far back, or wasn't it mentioned on wikipedia ?
That however does not I believe reflect on the overall comparitive levels of professionalism in the decades of operation, there are "black sheep" in every flock.
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