Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"We strongly disagree that anything that Continental did was the cause of the Concorde accident. We are confident that there is no basis for criminal action and we will defend any charges in the appropriate courts."

Source: Nick Britton, Continental Airlines' spokesman in the United Kingdom, after a French judge ordered company executives to Paris so they could testify about the crash of an Air France Concorde four years ago. A French prosecutor Tuesday said there was a "direct causal link" between a titanium wear-strip that fell from a Continental DC-10 and the crash, which occurred moments later.

FMI: www.continental.com