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Richard J. · October 23rd 03, 12:53 AM posted to uk.transport.london

CMOT TMPV wrote:
Once upon a time -- around about 10/22/03 19:27 --
possibly wrote:

Richard J. wrote:

And it's the least safe commercial airliner currently flying, in
terms of fatalities per million passenger miles.
Your valid points are let down by this one.

After all, one minute it was the safest airliner by your measure, and
the next it was the least safe.

Both claims would be suspect.

Actually, if you take into account the accident was caused by debris
on the runway left by a CO DC-10, Concorde has never crashed due to
any mechanical issue /or/ pilot error.

But that debris would not have caused other types of airliner to crash. If
a plane can't withstand the destruction of one of its tyres without a
catastrophic fire, there are serious design problems with it. That's why its
C of A was suspended until it was modified.
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Richard J.
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