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Old 4th Nov 2010, 06:29
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Torqueman
 
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A photo shown taken from a passenger shows some debris has shot through the wing less than twelve inches in front of the wing front spar. Behind the front spar is the fuel tank! I'm tipping that if a piece of hot turbine had gone though the wing tank it would have made the Air France Concorde disaster look like a fairly small accident.
The aircraft has just undergone it's first heavy maintenance check at lufthansa tech. in Germany.
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