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janiebelle -> RE: Air France flight missing: Rio to Paris (6/1/2009 7:22:32 PM)
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ORIGINAL: kittinSol
It's weird that people have to resort to dodgy online translation tools when they have a perfectly qualified French translator here on the site. Aka, moi.
To janiebelle, I didn't have to bother to look very far for incidents involving just the Boeing 747 . As for other Boeing aircrafts encountering incidents/accidents, ils sont légion: voici. To manage to make today's tragic event into some kind of national disqualifier about 'the French' (those fucking Frogs!) is really taking the biscuit, but not being a professional conspiracy theorist, I can't find the right mindset for it. Mais bon, faut pas pousser mémé dans les orties non plus, bordel de pute.
I can't imagine for the life of me what it must be like to be expecting someone to land from a flight that just went and disappeared over the ocean. This kind of incident is tragic. Thankfully, it is also extremely rare. Lets let it stay that way [&o] .
KittenSol,
I'm not trying to disparage the "fucking frogs" as a people, as my mother was born and raised in Paris, and I have spent more time there than the average American. In that same vein, I've spent enough time there to know that the French make excellent wines, wonderful cheese, beautiful shoes, etc.
But I would look to another country for cigarettes, cars, guns, or (though I'll never be in the market for one) airplanes.
I've seen some batty hyperbole online, but taking my opinion of the Airbus to mean I hate the French, that takes the biscuit. The fact that the French don't hold a candle to other European nations when it comes to that kind of technology is not an inherent fault of the French intellect or character, but rather a result of the high influx of immigrant workers in those industries. You won't find Saab, BMW, Ferrari, Bentley or Rolls Royce with such unqualified workers in that kind of field.
Exhibit A as applies to Airbus was apparent on the test flight in Toulouse when they jumped the chocks. Plane issue? No. Language/ culture issue...you betcha.
j
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