Concorde Builders, Users Push for Reestablishing AirworthinessThe builders and users of the Concorde supersonic aircraft presented a program of action on November 13 for re-establishing the airworthiness of the aircraft, suspended on August 6 by France and Britain after the July 25 crash of an Air France Concorde in Paris.The French General Direction of Civil Aviation (DGAC) said that a working group of French and British experts have received the program from the industrialists who made the Concorde planes and some transporters using such planes. The details of the program are not revealed, but the DGAC said that the builders of Concorde suggested that profound examinations be made to clarify causes of the damage on the reservoirs of the Air France Concorde, the origin of the fire which broke out on the plane, and why the engines and functioning of the hydraulic circuits of the plane failed. Experts have not yet decided the origin of the fire and the causes of damage suffered by the hydraulic system of the plane, although considerable progress has been made in the causes of the failure of engines. The explosion of at least one tire when the plane was taking off was believed to be the primary reason for the crash on July 25, which killed 109 passengers and crew members on board and four people on the ground. |
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