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Old Aug 28, 2005 | 6:03 pm
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Originally Posted by Shareholder
Yes, the result of poor maintenance on the part of DL whose wheel assembly fell apart and left metal bits on the runway, that Concorde had the misfortune to catch upon takeoff... Before that Concorde was the only aircraft type that had never crashed, and this one was no fault of the aircraft itself.
Actually, it was a Continental DC-10 that shed a piece of metal. and the wheel assembly didn't "fall apart".
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