It's been revealed that a CO DC-10 had to abort takeoff Tuesday at EWR when it blew an engine and left parts strewn accross the runway.

Recall it is believed that a DC-10 part actually may have brought down the AF Concorde in Paris!

It was the second time in 5 months that a CO flight has had such a problem at EWR, The Record of Hackensack, NJ reported today. On 4/25/00, a jet returned to EWR, 34 minutes after takeoff with 2 of 3 engines failing, blown tires, and ruptured hydraulic lines.
Both incidents happened on Flight 60 for Brussels, Belgium. The NTSB is investigating.
``The anomalies you are talking about with the two engines on Flight 60 takeoffs are atypical, but they are not unheard of,'' COl spokesman Dave Messing said.

These incidents are the latest DC-10 problems for CO. French investigators had announced Monday that a stray length of metal that "gashed" a tire of a Concorde, leading to a fuel tank fire, dooming the flight, probably came from a CO jet that took off on the same runway 4 minutes earlier. CO officials are cooperating with the investigation but have NOT yet stated the part was from one of their own DC-10s.




[This message has been edited by doc (edited 09-08-2000).]