Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: More on the Air India Crash Message-ID: <11505@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 15:19:48 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.11505 Posted: Thu Jul 11 15:19:48 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 07:11:08 EDT References: <1984@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> Reply-To: wmartin@brl-bmd.UUCP Distribution: net Organization: USAMC ALMSA Lines: 31 > From: Uday Reddy> Subject: [kapur@GE-CRD: News Bulletin 06/29]] > >> [Forwarded from iitnet. -- USR] >> >> The New York Times quoted a report in the Montreal Gazette saying that >> the Air-India crash might have occurred because >> of the structural breakdown of the plane caused >> by it carrying a fifth defective engine. >> According to the Air-India office as well as the >> Boeing company spokesman, this was a routine >> practice by all airlines and such an act could >> not have caused a structural breakdown in the >> plane. >> This has been extracted from a 200+ line posting on net.nlang.india. Does anyone have any idea as to what the paragraph above means? Does it indicate that the plane had a fifth engine somewhere on board? (In the cargo hold? Would a 747 engine fit inside the cargo space of a passenger-carrying 747 version?) Or does it mean that one engine had been replaced five times, due to defects, and that the repeated replacements caused weakening? Or what? Thanks for your advice; it might be that this is simply garbled and meaningless, but I'm not sure... Regards, Will Martin USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA