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To: paul_philp who wrote (10178)	11/13/2001 9:48:22 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Investigators treat air crash as accident (note from pb.. Been reading up on Vernon Grose, very experienced guy, that news item is for real i.e. the post to whom you refer. But here's another story...) US investigators are treating the latest air disaster to hit New York as an accident. The chief reason, said George Black, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, is the plane's cockpit voice recorder. However, he said the evidence on the recorder does not rule out sabotage: "It is absent of any extraneous noises or acts we would not associate with a normal aviation environment. "We're not going to exclude that possibility (of sabotage) until the investigation goes much further than this, but right now there's no evidence." Early evidence pointed to mechanical failure in the Airbus A300 - a plane whose CF6-80C2 engines have drawn close scrutiny since the spring of 2000, when planes reported engine failures that sent metal fragments flying. After extensive review, the Federal Aviation Administration published a safety notice in the Federal Register on October 5 stating there was a need for mandatory inspections of the CF6-80C2 engine because an unsafe condition had been identified. It gave the public 60 days, until December 4, to comment before ordering the more extensive and more frequent inspections. The CF6-80C2 that powered the ill-fated American plane is used on more than 1,000 aircraft worldwide, including the presidential jet, Air Force One. General Electric, the parent company for the engine maker, said it complied with all the government's repair orders and believed the engine was phenomenally reliable. The left engine that apparently failed in Monday's crash had been overhauled recently, while the right engine was due for an overhaul soon. ananova.com