British Airways Admits Delay in Getting Concorde Back in Air

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Tuesday, May 08, 2001, updated at 20:09(GMT+8)

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British Airways Admits Delay in Getting Concorde Back in Air

British Airways has admitted that its plans to get its grounded fleet of Concorde supersonic airliners back in the air have fallen behind schedule,according to local sources.

The British flag-carrier admitted that it now had "no timescale" for test flights and that modifications to the first Concorde, were only "two-thirds" complete.

An Air France Concorde flew from southern France to Paris on Saturday after undergoing new test flights sparked by the fatal crash which grounded commercial flights by the supersonic airliners last July.

Last year's crash is believed to have been caused by a tyre blowout on the runway which sent shards of metal and rubber into fuel tanks, setting them alight and causing the jet to crash into a hotel in a suburb near the airport.



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	British Airways has admitted that its plans to get its grounded fleet of Concorde supersonic airliners back in the air have fallen behind schedule,according to local sources.




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