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Re: AA Plane Loses Panel in Flight, Flies to Paris Anyway Posted on: Thu, 08 May 2008 18:52:59 GMT

On Thu, 08 May 2008 14:27:18 -0400, "Steven L."
wrote:

The real reason they didn't return being they would have lost 100,000
pounds of fuel. His argument about cargo shifting is bullshit,
because cargo shifts can cause a plane to crash and, if he thought
that was the cause, he certainly should have done something about it
other than just fly on.

>American plane flies trans-Atlantic trip with missing panel
>
>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An American Airlines plane flew from Dallas to Paris
>even though a "large panel" fell off the underside as the flight took
>off, the airline said in a memo to pilots.
>
>Pilots and crew heard a noise and felt vibrations as the plane passed
>through 10,000 feet, but did not know the cause until they landed in
>Paris, France, according to the memo, which was obtained by CNN.
>
>"There was no way this crew could have known this panel had departed,"
>the memo says. "If they had known, they obviously would have returned."
>
>American Airlines issued the statement after angry e-mails and photos of
>the hole left by the missing panel, allegedly from members of the flight
>crew, began circulating on the Internet and airline industry blogs.
>
>The carrier is not commenting officially on the April 20 incident other
>than to say it is investigating, spokesman Tim Wagner said. The memo is
>dated May 7.
>
>The statement defends the pilot's decision to continue the 9½-hour
>flight, saying there were no warning lights, system abnormalities,
>further noises or vibrations.
>
>"The captain decided to continue to [Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport]
>believing the noise might have been a cargo container shift," the memo
>said. It says the pilot would have had to dump 100,000 pounds of fuel
>before returning to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, and that he
>had options to land before crossing the ocean if there had been further
>cause for concern.
>
>The memo does not name the pilot of the 767 twin jumbo aircraft.
>
>A wing panel blew off a USAirways plane somewhere over Maryland in
>March. Investigators later said they found cracked wing clips on the
>aircraft -- and on seven of the airline's 18 older Boeing 757s. All of
>the aircraft have been repaired, according to the independent National
>Transportation Safety Board, which is checking to see if other airlines'
>fleets could be affected.
>
>A fatal Concorde crash in Paris in 2000 was apparently caused by a metal
>strip from another aircraft that damaged the Concorde on takeoff.
>
>Photos of the missing panel here:
>
>http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/05/photos-of-aa-jet-with-missing.html
>
>
>--
>Steven L.
>Email: sdlitvin@earthlinkNOSPAM.net
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