Aviation
On a Tuesday in 2000, an Air France Concorde supersonic jet crashed. The disaster resulted in the death of 113 people. In addition to the casualties from the flight itself, the Concorde crash left a major dent in aviation history. The crash was not like any other airline crash. This crash resulted in the entire dismantling of the Concorde program, which had been one of the most romantic eras in aviation history. Since 1969, the Concorde had been dazzling onlookers and aviation buffs. Its characteristic downturned nose made the Concorde unique, and it was the only commercial airline ever to fly supersonically.
What went wrong on that fateful day in 2000? It took ten full years to find out, and it appears that some mystery surrounding the Concorde crash still remains. In 2010, a French court ruled that Continental airlines were to blame for the Concorde crash. The verdict seemed strange to many who were following the case. The courts made the ruling based on evidence that a Continental mechanic "improperly monitored and maintained aircraft, resulting in a piece of titanium falling from a plane onto a runway at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport a few minutes before the ill-fated Concorde took off July 25, 2000," (Lauter, 2010).
The ruling raised some questions about culpability in airline crashes. In this case, Concord and Air France, as well as the Charles de Gaulle airport, were completely cleared of any wrongdoing. This sent a strange message about who is responsible for maintaining the runways at airports, as well as who was responsible for the possible underlying structural issues that might have predisposed the Concorde to crash. According to the courts, "the roughly 16-inch piece of metal known as a wear strip punctured a tire on the Air France jet as it sped down the runway for takeoff, and that debris perforated the jet's low-lying fuel tank, causing a leak and a fire," (Lauter, 2010)....
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Aviation Business Ethics and Sept. 11 Industry Implications On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists passed through several security checkpoints at three United States airports and proceeded to hijack four commercial jets. The horror began at 8:45 A.M. Two hours later, more than three thousand people were killed in New York City, rural Pennsylvania and Arlington, Virginia (Duffy, 2002). shattered the nation's sense of safety and security and forever changed the way people
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