Originally Posted by
rudderrudderrat
...a TV "reconstruction" about the Paris crash which suggests a "spacer" was missing from one of the bogies which made steering in a straight line with an engine failure impossible.....
....Do you have any more information whether this is fact or fantasy?
No, I don't...
The missing spacer is a fact.
Whether it made the slightest difference, with what amounted to a dragging left main gear after the tyre blowout and a double engine failure at takeoff, is something I don't know.
CJ