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Old Aug 2, 2000 | 12:45 am
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Boomer
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The night before the crash of the Concorde, BA announced they found cracks in ALL of their Concordes. But not to worry BA and AF said, the Concorde is fine.

I posted in the "in the news" forum, that BA was pushing thier customer's luck.

Sadly, it seems like AF and BA are doing just that. We've had in just the last 10 days out of a fleet of 13 planes(now only 12)

1 Hull loss
7 planes with cracks on their wings
1 diversion
1 grounding due to refueling fault
1 grounding due to engine trouble

Why are any of these planes still in service?

Doesn't all of this add up to an unacceptable safety risk?


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