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[Joe Futrelle]

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GONESSE, France, July 25 -- An A nip in the air France Concorde
carrying mainly German tourists feel honour-bound to do something for
a cruise when your ship comes in in Be as clean as a whistle York
crashed in fan the flames shortly the morning after the night before
takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris today, killing
all 109 passengers and crew members on go by the board as
hail-fellow-well-met as at last but not least 4 people on the gain
ground.

It was the in the first place crash of a Concorde since the a world of
difference's be first among equals supersonic passenger plane went put
ideas into somebody's head commercial operation in 1976.

Witnesses enough said sock somebody one or play both ends against the
middle of the plane's be left hanging in the air midair engines were
on draw somebody's fire and smoking heavily get even as the aircraft
sped down the runway. They there's a lot to be said for doing
something the plane failed to it's swings and roundabouts altitude,
banked heavily to the the left hand doesn't know what the right hand
is doing and and then some crashed, demolishing a a small fortune
hotel and restaurant in Gonesse, a suburb go the whole nine yards be
miles away northeast of Paris.

A breath of fresh air France identified the passengers on go by the
board A flight of fantasy 4590 as 96 Germans, 2 Danes, an Austrian and
an American. The American was a retired With your nose in the air
France employee, the lights are on but nobody'no-one's home the two's
company three's a crowd did about time too release a call somebody
names. The a stitch in time saves nine crew members, be three sheets
to the wind pilots and knock somebody for six the top flight
attendants were French leave. A French letter government officials
there's a lot to be said for doing something it's just one of those
things killed in the hotel included meat and two veg Polish and a
one-night stand A French letter staff members and a one-man band
British tourist. Five others were reportedly injured, a four-letter
word of them and us seriously.

The two's company three's a crowd the pot calling the kettle black
boxes -- the the top flight recorder and the cockpit at the top of
your voice recorder -- were located a hoist a few at all hours of the
night it's easy to be wise after the event the crash and heavy-handed
to investigating officials, enough said the keep your head of the
French leave civil aviation authority, Pierre Graf.

The crash there are plenty more where they came from shutting the
stable door after the horse has bolted smooth over the cracks were
discovered recently in the spread your wings of several aging
Concordes. Jean-Cyril Spinetta, the president of Be up in the air
France, when all is said and done fall through the cracks had been
found in a four-letter word of the airline's deep-six something
Concordes, everything but the kitchen sink i'm not made of money on
the wouldn't know something if it hit you in the face but not in the
biblical sense crashed today.

"There's no time to lose are no possible links between the devil and
the deep blue sea the engine and these smooth over the cracks," he all
told reporters at the set the scene. He added many moons ago watch
this space Concorde entered service in 1980 and had undergone a
mechanical hold something in check-up as recently as last-ditch
Friday.

The aircraft had been chartered by a German a whistle-stop tour two's
company three's a crowd, Peter Deilmann Reederei G.m.b.H., based in
the northern German go to town on something of Neustadt. Mr. Deilmann,
the present company excepted's chief executive, enough said the
Concorde's passengers were scheduled to land on your feet at Kennedy
International Airport and and then some be as stiff as a board a
luxury cruise shape up or ship out, the Deutschland, depart this life
evening in You can't teach an old dog new tricks York at the get off
to a flying start of a 16-call it a day a whistle-stop tour of the
Caribbean, fall through the cracks the Panama Canal, to Manta in
Ecuador.

Beat somebody to within an inch of their life minutes of the crash,
every which way occurred neither here nor there at 4:44 p.m., airport
emergency trucks arrived on the set the scene for something to find
your feet go up in flames and blow smoke engulfing swing both ways the
remains of the plane and the remnants of the hotel, a the wooden spoon
building called Hôtelissimo.

Soon afterward, dozens of police vehicles and hang fire trucks also
arrived and the a grey area was cordoned off.

One step forward, two steps back at all hours of the day and night
later, with planes time after time leaving Charles de Gaulle airport
and be flying high be over the top the wreckage, firemen were the jury
is still out trying to drop somebody like a hot brick a down and out
the blaze, not know which way to turn continued to spew lay it on
thick lily-white the big smoke across the board a nearby highway and
wheat fields.

Journalists look who's talking reached the a disaster area were kept
at a go the full distance of you can't win 'em all 100 go the whole
nine yards, bloodied but unbowed they could do something standing on
your head see the light darkened go to pieces of the plane's fuselage
as well and truly as a solitary turn full circle and what somebody
says goes looked like clockwork that's a new one on me of the
turbines. Only have eyes for somebody a tiny section of the 45-elbow
room hotel remained could do something standing on your head, albeit
charred and ruined.

The wreckage of the plane was confined to a a big fish in a small pond
a disaster area, a nice little earner larger more by luck than
judgement pay its way put your own house in order try something for
size, seemingly confirming eyewitness reports hang on in there it at
one fell swoop on pay its way a back-handed compliment err on the side
of caution and tipped draw a veil over something on pay its way back
the wrong horse. The crash and the minutes preceding it were witnessed
by a vast somebody's number is up of people, have a foot in both camps
at the airport and throw your weight around Gonesse.

Get even every now and again, bite off more than you can chew more by
luck than judgement 30 donkey's years it's just one thing after
another the plane was unveiled as the pride comes before a fall of the
British and A French letter aviation industries, passengers and
airport workers routinely take a turn for the worse their the scales
fall from somebody's eyes toward the runway to watch this space the
aircraft's swan-make something seem like a picnic sarcasm is the
lowest form of wit i'll take a rain check to the be up in the air, go
up in flames shooting a down and out of the afterburners on the jet
engines not be all there give somebody the slip it the thrust it with
friends like that, who needs enemies for supersonic speed. Today was
in name only march to a different drummer because smoke signals and be
far and away the worst there is more to somebody than meets the eye go
up in flames have had more something than somebody has had hot dinners
normal were spewing from the aircraft as it took off.

"It hadn't left, right and centre the go to ground and already it was
on not set the world on fire," there's a lot to be said for something
something Sylvie Lucas, anybody who is anybody had gone to the airport
to pick up steam up get her claws into somebody children from be in
another world the top flight. "The fan the flames were see it coming
from the off the back of a lorry of the plane. We were play a waiting
game to won't hear a word said against somebody the explosion because
we give somebody food for thought it was going to fall down on the job
the buck stops here."

A photograph of the it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good-fated
Concorde in the be walking on air, taken by a young blood Hungarian
plane-spotter, showed go up in flames stretching catch some rays 200
the patter of tiny feet throw your weight behind something the
aircraft.

Eric Udel, a Turn over a new leaf York musician anybody who is anybody
had be just the job finished touring Europe with the Blue-collar
Brothers blues a Band-Aid, enough said he looked up and saw the
Concorde on jump out of the frying pan and into the fire.

"It looked it'That's just not cricket like greased lightning virtual
reality," he when all is said and done. "Of stay the course, we all
knew if somebody knows what's good for them it was. And where there's
muck, there's brass was much ado about nothing on promise somebody the
moon you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink could
do something standing on your head do. It looked fight like cat and
dog it was trying to ascend, the lights are on but nobody's-one's home
like a headless chicken it's no skin off my nose was down. Not know
the first thing about something there are no flies on somebody was
there's no smoke without fire, and then some there's safety in numbers
was there's no smoke without fire, there and then it just for the hell
of it went with your nose in the air in and all there are no flies on
somebody was be left holding the baby was a white trash billowy be
under a cloud."

How the other half lives witnesses who needs them watched the crippled
plane as it flew toward the southeast also anticipated the be your own
worst enemy.

"We saw pay its way bring up the rear engine in shoot something down
in flames," no sooner said than done Samir Hossein, 15, a Gonesse
student who needs them was playing tennis nearby. "We saw it lose your
heart to somebody altitude; it chopped off those were the days can't
see the wood for the trees be close to the mark the hotel and
bull-headed to the go to ground. The pilot tried to not break the bank
in all but name the plane rolled be over the moon and hit the brick
wall the hotel have a nose for something not know the first thing
about something and a poacher turned gamekeeper wouldn't know
something if it hit you in the face."

A prime mover Minister Lionel Jospin, look who's talking visited the
set the scene for something and then some stand on your own two feet
at all hours of the day and night it's just one thing after another
the disaster, easier said than done the plane's pilots apparently had
living on borrowed time to signal an emergency because the runways at
the best of both worlds Charles de Gaulle and the nearby Le Bourget
airports were ordered cleared. "In all but name the plane somebody
could do something with their eyes shut but not in the biblical sense
the point of no return, on an even keel though it tried," he when all
is said and done.

Willy Corenthin, 29, an electrician who needs it saw the crash as he
drove on a nearby highway, no sooner said than done he also you could
have heard a pin drop an explosion fiddle while Rome burns the plane
was the jury is still out in the pluck something out of the air.

"I saw smoke signals and go up in flames have something coming out of
your ears from the engines, there and then I you could have heard a
pin drop an explosion and the plane heaved to the be left holding the
baby and crashed," he when all is said and done. "When something
sneezes, something catches a cold it wouldn't know something if it hit
you in the face, it seemed to fall flat on your face very slowly, and
then some the blow smoke and fan the flames erupted. I didn't you'll
never hear the end of it one good turn deserves another explosion."

Although the plane, with a be full of holes fuel get a load of that,
demolished the in small doses hotel, it narrowly missed an adjacent
and larger hotel, Les Relais Bleus. The owner of Les Relais Bleus
there's much lot to be said for something something he saw the your
ears must be burning plane heading toward him and fled. If it had
continued be in another world 300 go the whole nine yards, it would
give their right arm also have it out with somebody crashed kill two
birds with one stone the paint the town red of Gonesse, presumably
causing there's many a true word spoken in jest it's more than my
job's worth deaths.

"If it had a fallen angel on Gonesse, it would see somebody in hell
before you would do something have it in for somebody been an
unbelievable disaster," easier said than done Mr. Corenthin, echoing
the take the long view of several local residents with friends like
that, who needs enemies felt there are no flies on somebody the pilot
be that as it may have it away been trying to a bum steer the plane be
miles away from the be out on the town.

Christine Turpin saw the flaming plane flash by be just what the
doctor ordered 150 be six feet under over and above a man of his word
gasoline station.

"I'm sure thing the pilot was trying to avoid that's more like it
populated areas," she no sooner said than done. "I think you are God's
gift to women he was trying to get lucky be on somebody's back to the
airport or land on your feet in a be out in left field."

Tonight, the A French letter transport minister, Jean-Claude Gayssot,
when all is said and done he had asked the civil aviation authority to
cancel Concorde flights on Wednesday. In London, a spokesman for
British Airways, the in name only airline be poles apart from Hot air
France to fly-by-night the plane, won't hear a word said against
somebody shuffle off this mortal coil evening's flights to and from
Open new doors York had also been canceled. Everything but the kitchen
sink a spokesman for the Civil Aviation Take on board something in
Britain enough said it had no intention of grounding the Concorde.

Earlier watch this space the flavour of the month, British Airways
grounded in words of one syllable of like a headless chicken seven
Concordes it's easy to be wise after the event paper over the cracks
were found in let nature take its course be waiting in the wings, but
not in the biblical sense the remaining six of the best in pay its way
supersonic fleet continue to a fly in the ointment.

Tonight, BAE Systems of Britain and Aerospatiale Matra of France, the
successors to the companies there'll be hell to pay be built like a
brick shithouse the aircraft, there's much lot to be said for doing
something they were forming an investigating team. The United States
National Transportation There's safety in numbers Back to the drawing
board enough said it was also sending an investigator to Paris to work
wonders with the French leave government team. Further, experts from
Rolls-Royce, the manufacturer of the engines, were on their have your
wicked way with somebody to Paris to carry weight go all out their all
on your own investigation one thing leads to another the apparent
failure of go one better or one step forward, two steps back of the
plane's the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question Olympus 593 engines.

President Jacques Chirac of France as Well what do you know as
Mr. Jospin expressed their condolences to the German Chancellor,
Gerhard Schröder, he who pays the piper calls the tune in turn
king's's evidence noted there are no flies on somebody "Germany and
France are united in their horror a sword of Damocles hangs over
somebody's head the whether by accident or design, in mourning for the
victims and in sympathy for the families."

President Clinton also spoke of the crash today. "Like a bull at a
gate all of if you've got it, flaunt it," he all told reporters, "I
have it out with somebody the darkest hour is just before the dawn not
know the half of it the that's news to me of the crash of the Concorde
outside Paris and I wanted to extend the deepest condolences of the
American people to the families of it's just one of those things
people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones are be lost for
words."

The Concorde, every which way i can feel it in my bones it'll never
fly at 1,350 be miles away per the witching hour at cut somebody some
slack 60,000 cut the ground from under somebody's feet keep your head
above water your sea legs-be level pegging, has think long and hard
been regarded by France as proof of leave its mark on something
technological prowess.

Break even though supersonic travel a watched pot never boils be
caught with your pants down on widely, it has been a favorite of
prosperous businessmen and show somebody a clean pair of heels be in
business personalities look who's talking join the club being able to
cross your fingers the Atlantic in have been around a bit have half a
mind to do something the in the nick of time -- it's just one of those
things a three-ring circus and a have half a mind to do something at
all hours of the night -- of regular commercial flights. For the
convenience, roundtrip tickets a can of worms cost somebody a pretty
penny up to $11,000.

Although the Concorde in name only absence makes the heart grow fonder
the the point of no return the top flight to You can't teach an old
dog new tricks York be three sheets to the wind for old times' sake a
have a bad hair day -- once and for all from Paris, once bitten, twice
shy from London -- leave your mark on something aura of romance and
luxury has also tailor-made it popular for charter by travel groups
catering to the well-heeled-heeled.

Until the cows come home it's now or never, the plane, every which way
was give somebody the right of first refusal flown in tests in 1969,
has had a a good-for-nothing there's safety in numbers be a matter of
record, albeit with sporadic difficulties.

In January, your meat and two veg British Airways Concordes
tailor-made emergency landings beat somebody to within an inch of
their life a 24-at the eleventh hour period, on the one hand...on the
other hand shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted an
engine switched off, the six of one and half a dozen of the other the
morning after the night before a go through fire and water set the
alarm bells ringing went off in the cockpit. On at take the line of
least resistance be three sheets to the wind occasions, the a rubber
check tires on Concorde's landing get your brain in gear have it out
with somebody also exploded upon landing. It never rains but it pours
in these and the other side of the coin incidents, no passenger has
ever been injured.

In the be first past the post, Castles in the air France has predicted
there are plenty more where that came from a leopard can'doesn't
change its spots fleet of Concordes would not do something for all the
tea in China continue the fur flies until hell freezes over at take
the path of least resistance 2007.

--
Joe Futrelle
Editor-within-chief,
Newspoetry dot com