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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: More on the Air India Crash
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 15:19:48 EDT
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>	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

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