>From the UFO Roundup newsletter:
CONCORDE CRASH: THE
UFO CONNECTION
On Tuesday, July 25, 2000, at 4 p.m., the
Concorde, a sleek supersonic passenger jetliner,
fueled up at Charles de Gaulle International Airport
north of Paris, preparing for its flight to New York City.
At 4:42 p.m., the tower cleared the Concorde, now
Air France Flight 4590, for takeoff. The Concorde began
rolling down the runway. But as the jetliner started its
climb, a long trailing plume of fire poured out of the
Number 2 engine.
The crew apparently tried to bank to the right upon
completing their climbout, and the Concorde began losing
altitude.
At 4:44 p.m., the jet crashed three kilometers (two
miles) east of the airport, killing all 109 passengers on
board. Four people on the ground were also killed
when the crashing Concorde "obliterated the Hotelissimo,
a three-story hotel," located at the intersection of les
Autoroutes N17 and D902 in Gonesse, a town of 25,000
10 kilometers (6 miles) north of Paris.
Investigators combed the wheat fields near the
Hotelissimo for Concorde wreckage. One of the two
cockpit data recorders was found shortly after the
crash.
"Investigators had known that the Concorde pilot
reported problems with the No. 2 engine, the innermost
engine on the left, but the flight data recorder shows
that the No. 1 engine adjoining it also lost power. The
engine somehow regained thrust but lost power again
after being airborne for 'a bit less than a minute,'" the French
Accident Investigation Bureau reported.
"Shortly after reporting problems with the No. 2 engine,
the crew said that the landing gear would not retract."
"'The flames seen after takeoff did not come from
the engine but in all likelihood from from a major fuel leak,'
the Accident and Inquiry Office, part of France's
transportation ministry said in a statement Sunday,"
July 30, 2000, "'One of the pieces found on the runway
seems to come from a fuel tank,' the statement said."
(Editor's Comment: A burst or ruptured tank would halt the
flow of fuel to the No. 1 and No. 2 engines. But how would
that cause the electrical systems failure that affected the
Concorde's landing gear?)
The crash took a strange twist, however, when it was
revealed that the Concorde had been leased by Dellmann,
the German tour company. Of the 109 people aboard,
96 were German tourists, and 13 of these came from
Munchengladbach (population 260,000)m a mid-sized
industrail city located 10 kilometers (6 miles) west of
Dusseldorf and 320 kilometers (200 miles) southwest
of Berlin.
Munchengladbach was in the news six weeks ago
when a UFO reportedly landed on the outskirts of the
city. Over 50 German policemen hunted for the landed
saucer, and some residents supposedly made contact
with the saucer's occupants, which were described as
"green humanoid males" on an "odyssey through the
universe." (For more details, see UFO Roundup, volume 5,
number 24, "German police hunt for landed UFO," page 3.)
Among the crash victims from Munchengladbach were
"private business school director Kurt Kahle, 51, who perished
with his wife and 8-year-old son, leaving behind a daughter...
Werner Tellman, head of a chain of furniture stores, and
Harald Ruch, founder of a company that provides glass
cleaning and security services to area businesses. Both
died with their wives on the Concorde."
On Thursday, July 27, 2000, a mysterious bomb
explosion occurred at a commuter rail station in Dusseldorf
used by Munchengladbach residents.
""An explosion rocked a Dusseldorf commuter train station,
injuring nine people and sending bleeding commuters rushing
from the station in panic. Two of the injured were in critical
conditions, fire officials said."
"Police said the blast was likely caused by a fragmentation
grenade or a homemade bomb. Authorities did not believe
did not believe the attack was politically motivated." (See
USA Today for July 26, 2000, "Shock and grief unite Germany
and France," page 3A; July 28, 2000, "Concorde was aflame
during liftoff," page 13A; July 27, 2000, "In Germany, 'an
entire city is in mourning' after disaster," page 6A and
July 31, 2000, "Major fuel leak likely sparked flames on
Concorde," page 7A.)
(Editor's Comment: Suddenly it's very dangerous to be
from Munchengladbach. You know, this isn't the first time
a UFO incident has had a cockeyed link to a major tragedy
in the news. Last year, UFOs were seen repeatedly in
Rosamund, California. Then, three months later, former
Aryan Nations member and longtime Rosamund resident
Buford O. Furrow Jr. popped up in Los Angeles with guns
blazing. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?)
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