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Old Aug 25, 2005 | 12:45 am
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Originally Posted by MikeMpls
I believe the Concorde crash in Paris was caused by tire debris from another jet that had just taken off.
Partially correct, but the wrong plane. The Concordes tire blew when it hit a piece of metal that supposedly fell off of a CO jet that had departed before the concorde. Then the concordes tire blowing on take off caused a piece or rubber or something to puncture a fuel tank or a fuel line. I don't remember what happened to cause the fire, but I know that it was metal on the runway that exploded the AF Concordes tire.
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