This is not a reply to my own question (!!) more a general observation which I’ll post under Comet rather than logging off and then logging on again as VLM Flyer. I’ve seen staggering differences in the past few days with those who post on my Yahoo Sabena Group, and also on this forum – vastly different usernames, but same message styles and in some cases, identical posts on both forums!!

I think there are alot of cover ups about the Concorde crash. Apparently the pilot refused to fly the aircraft until repairs were carried out because he was not happy with the state it was in when taken from the hangar before the flight. Before it had left New York the previous night, the aircraft had been “repaired”, and it was “repaired” again before the fateful take off. Could these repairs have been botched? Concorde had suffered burst tyres on many occasions, but never had anything so catastrophic happened as a result, so could something else have caused the fuel leak as opposed to tyre material?

I used to work at our local cricket ground, we had many international cricketers such as Imran Khan, Ian Botham and many others, I used to talk to them sometimes. Also, last time I was at Heathrow, I met the then Aeroflot supervisor Jeremy Spake, took his photo and he signed a copy of the book he had written. That was in May 1999.

Add coriander to the list – makes me heave to think about it!!
The weird taste!! I once had some squid in our local Thai, and all I could taste after that was bloody coriander. I went to an Italian restaurant in Dublin the other week to have some spaghetti carbonara. It was going down nicely until I discovered that they had added chopped coriander to the sauce, and I couldn’t eat any more.

Best – Icelandair, Finnair, Cyprus Airways, British Airways, Iberia, Air France, Sabena and VLM.
Worst – Air New Zealand.

Originally posted by T5
It’s certainly not nice to think that somebody would even consider to sell this wreckage, but as for taking a photo of it… what’s the problem with that? You’re saying that if you trotted along with your camera and came across such a scene, you wouldn’t take a photograph? I think not.

T5, I find your comment offensive and insulting. NO, I WOULD NOT TAKE SUCH A GRUESOME PHOTOGRAPH IF I “CAME ACROSS SUCH A SCENE”, PLEASE, CREDIT ME WITH SOME BLOODY SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do NOT imply that I am one of those sick ghouls, thank you very much.

Originally posted by frankvw
The pic comes indeed from the news report.

Btw, RTBF stands for “Radio Télévision Belge Francophone” so, french speaking belgian radio – tv.

And… some Sabena planes are still on the ramp in Brussels (or were there one month ago)

Very interesting!!!!!

The aircraft in Sabena colours are some Airbuses, I have that from a reliable Belgian source.

The idea that the father stays to help with the children is a noble one Arthur, but it doesn’t always happen. And anyway, why is it that it should be the women who give up everything to be stuck at home child rearing whilst men go out to work?

Geforce, it is a good idea that childless (and not always childless) couples adopt children from Third World countries, in Britain many families have taken in children from those horrid Romanian orphanages, from China and from Africa, and given them better chances than they could ever have had if they had stayed in the country of their birth, but it is still a fact that not all women want children, either their own or adopted, and it is time that men stopped assuming that a woman’s sole ambition and goal in life is to have (or look after) children. It is not always the case.