Concorde engine trouble spreads panic on New York-Paris flight PARIS (AP) =97 The pilot of an Air France Concorde en route from New York to= =20 Paris rapidly descended 27,000 feet after one of the plane's engines=20 malfunctioned as passengers clutched each other in fear, the airline and=20 passengers said Tuesday. None of the 67 passengers was injured and the=20 flight arrived safely at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport Monday night, the= =20 official said. The cause of the engine trouble was not immediately known.=20 Air France said that one of the supersonic jet's four engines malfunctioned= =20 during the Atlantic crossing. The pilot shut down that engine and flew the= =20 plane from 60,000 feet to 33,000 feet and leveled off. A passenger on the=20 flight, Amar Belgacem, said the plane descended fast and passengers=20 panicked. "All the plates, glasses, all the food crashed to the ground,"=20 Belgacem told France-2 television. "We grabbed onto our neighbors ...=20 everyone was saying prayers. I had the fright of my life." The incident came nearly two and a half years after an Air France Concorde= =20 crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport. All=20 109 people on board were killed, along with four on the ground. An=20 investigation concluded that the Concorde crashed after a tire was=20 punctured by a stray metal strip on the runway, propelling pieces of rubber= =20 into the fuel tank and igniting a fire. Air France and British Airways, the= =20 only airlines that operate the jet, grounded their fleets and revamped the= =20 planes to address safety concerns. The luxury aircraft was returned to=20 service in November 2001. The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site: Roj (Roger James) *************************************************** escape email mailto:ejames@escape.ca Trinbago site: http://www.tntisland.com CBC Website http://www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ The Trinbago Site of the Week: (I95.5FM) http://www.i955fm.com (Radio Station I95.5FM) courtesy of Roj Trinbago Website & TnT Web Directory Roj's Trinbago Website: http://www.tntisland.com TnT Web Directory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************