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Old 10-November-2005, 02:12 PM
WHarris WHarris is offline
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Originally Posted by Moon Man
I'm also glad you mentioned the Concorde. The Concorde that crashed and brought the plane to retirement was caused by a fire in the tire well.
Wrong.

Debris on the runway caused a tire to blowout and shred, sending chucks into the fuel tanks and/or the engines. The resulting fuel leak caught fire and THAT caused the crash.