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At 16:38 CEST (14:38 UTC), five minutes before the Concorde departed, Continental Airlines Flight 55, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, took off from the same runway for Newark International Airport and lost a titanium alloy strip that was part of the engine cowl, identified as a wear strip about 435 millimetres (17.1 in) long, 29 to 34 millimetres ...
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July 25, 2000: The right-hand thrust reverser cowl door of Continental Airlines Flight 55, DC-10-30 N13067, shed a strip of metal which landed on the runway at Charles de Gaulle Airport upon takeoff. Minutes later, Air France Flight 4590 , operated by a Concorde , ran over the metal strip at high speed, bursting a tire and causing a fuel tank ...
The airline suffered in 1979 when the DC-10 was grounded nationwide following the crash of American Airlines Flight 191. Continental Airlines only operated the DC-10 and the 727 at the time, so flights to Hawaii were cancelled during the grounding.
55 National Airlines Flight 193: Escambia Bay, near Pensacola: Florida: Boeing 727-200: The crew attempted a non-precision approach in poor visibility, improperly responded to a ground proximity alarm, and the aircraft landed in the water short of the runway. March 1, 1978 4 29 196 Continental Airlines Flight 603: Los Angeles: California
According to the accident investigation report, the probable cause was the destruction of one of the aircraft's main wheel tires, as a result of passing at high speed over a part lost by a Continental Airlines DC-10 operating for Continental Airlines Flight 55 during its takeoff run.