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Old 06-15-2005, 01:56 PM   #5
dustygoon
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my recollection from news at the time:

some debree from a plane was laying on the runway......the concorde tires are inflated to extremely high pressures....the tire blew up with tremendous force, causing damage to the engine/wing which resulted in the fire.
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