Various bits have been falling off Air NZ's fleet of Boeings in recent months, mainly flaps and panels that hadn't been screwed back on!

I remember talking to a Concorde pilot about a previous occasion. If my memory serves me right this was an occasions when the aircraft lost part of the top of the tail in the cruise. The first the crew knew was vibration. They came back to subsonic and during deceleration the vibration largely ceased. When they put the power back on to maintain subsonic cruise it came back. Experimentation discovered that throttling one engine up (forget which) seemed to provoke vibration so they shut it down. On finals they had some problems with control (the comment "had to give the rudder a real boot to straighten it up" comes to mind) but put it down to the asymetric engine condtion.

As with this latest occasion the loss of rudder section was pointed out by tower on landing.

M.Mouse

I fail to see how getting the concorde engineers to resign is going to sort out the problems with the manangement. There has been an ongoing row in that department over managers pressuring engineers to fit unserviceable parts.

BA senior management know exactly what they are doing and why they are doing it. The engineers in that department may not agree or like it but until something serious happens it probably will not change.

That is no reason for the engineers to keep quite and not voice their concerns.