There comes a time in flight where the PIC shakes the stick and
says, "Here, you take over." (Usually when you're upside down,
nothing on the clock, and still climbing, but that's another
story...). And that has happened recently with the Sport Pilot
Resource Guide, the beloved, and accursed, monstrosity that weighs
down coffee tables nationwide -- but contains more information on
sport and experimental airplane types than anything else, ever.
"We strongly disagree that anything that Continental did was the
cause of the Concorde accident. We are confident that there is no
basis for criminal action and we will defend any charges in the
appropriate courts."
Source: Nick Britton, Continental Airlines'
spokesman in the United Kingdom, after a French judge ordered
company executives to Paris so they could testify about the crash
of an Air France Concorde four years ago. A French prosecutor
Tuesday said there was a "direct causal link" between a titanium
wear-strip that fell from a Continental DC-10 and the crash, which
occurred moments later.
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