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On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 19:27:11 -0500, "John A. Weeks III"
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With one fatal accident
and so few flight hours, the Concorde made the Russians look like
models of safety.
And the cause of the crash was due to an object being thrown up from
the runway and piercing a fuel tank in the wing ,now has most aircraft
have tanks located in their wings are not all the jets that are about
to take off at this very moment not susceptible to this problem .


The cause of the crash was NOT the puncture of the wing tank
but was the ignition of the leaking fuel by the afterburning jet engine
behind it.

Since most aircraft do NOT have such afterburning engines aft of
them this would not be problem. There have been major fuel leaks on
other aircraft without such fires.

Of course your favourite aircraft, the BAC One-11 DID have low
bypass rear mounted engines and so was rather more susceptible
to such problems.

Keith



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