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Friday, October 24, 2003
WORLD
THE BATTALION
Last paying Concorde passengers
flying from London to New York
By Jill Lawless
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — British Airways checked in
its last fare-paying Concorde passengers
Thursday, a day before scheduled superson
ic service ends for good.
Both Thursday’s London-New York
flight and Friday’s final trans-
Atlantic return are expected to
be full, but Friday’s passen
gers will all be invited guests
of the airline, including
actress Joan Collins and
Concorde frequent flyer Sir
David Frost.
Thousands of planespot-
ters are expected to gather
near Heathrow Airport on
Friday to watch the near-
simultaneous landing of the
New York flight and two
other Concordes — one
carrying competition win
ners from Edinburgh, the other taking
guests on a circular flight from Heathrow
over the Bay of Biscay.
With that, the era of supersonic commer
cial flight will be over, at least for now.
British Airways chairman Lord Marshall
said Concorde’s final day would bring
mixed emotions.
“Everyone has enormous pride in all that
900-year-old
she has achieved, but there is inevitable sad
ness that we have to move on and say
farewell,” he said.
“The decision to retire Concorde was a
tough one, but it is the right thing to do at the
right time,” he added.
British Airways’ announcement last April
that it was retiring its seven Concordes
spurred an outpouring of affection for the
sleek needle-nosed jet.
But airport authorities
asked people. not to go to
Heathrow Friday for the
finale, fearing traffic gridlock
in the area west of London.
Hundreds of police will be
on duty around the airport’s
perimeter and parking will be
strictly barred, as 1,000 invit
ed guests watch the landing
from a grandstand erected
near the runway.
The Anglo-French
Concorde, which began
commercial service in
January 1976, was a technological marvel
and the ultimate symbol of jet-set glamour.
It flew up to 11 miles above the Earth, at up
to 1,350 mph, crossing the Atlantic in about
3 1/2 hours. With the five-hour time differ
ence, passengers arrived in New York earli
er than they had left London.
But it was ultimately a financial dud. The
British and French governments hoped to
sell hundreds of Concordes around the
world, but in the end only 16 were built. All
went to BA and Air France, which grounded
its fleet for good in May.
Concorde never made back the millions
invested in it, even with fares of more than
$9,000 for a trans-Atlantic round trip. The
July 25, 2000 crash of an Air France
Concorde near Paris, which killed 113 peo
ple, grounded the planes for more than a
year. Concorde returned to service just after
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which spawned
an aviation slump.
Maintenance costs also were growing for
the aging jets. Last April, both airlines
announced they would be retiring Concorde.
British Airways said it would make an
announcement next week about the fate of
its seven Concordes. Most are expected to
go to museums.
Virgin Atlantic Airways chief Richard
Branson, whose attempt to buy the remain
ing Concordes was rebuffed by BA, said it
was a shame the plane would not be allowed
to continue flying.
“Concorde is capable of flying for 20
to 30 years and it should continue to fly,”
he said.
“We should all make an enormous effort
to make sure that Concorde is kept flying in
air displays and jubilee events so that future
generations can actually see Concorde fly
and not in a museum.”
ship draws experts to India
The decision to
retire Concorde was
a tough one, but it is
the right thing to do
at the right time.
— Lord Marshall
British Airways chairman
By V. M. Thomas
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
COCHIN, India — A sailing
vessel that experts believe sank
off the coast of southern India
900 years ago has been found
buried in a rice field and is
attracting the attention of inter
national marine, archaeology
and conservation experts.
The ship is made of local
Indian wood but the crafts
manship is not, leading experts
to suggest it was made by
«ent Chinese, Japanese,
Egyptians or Arabs.
The government of southern
Kerala state finished excavating
the 22-meter long, 5-meter wide
(72-foot long, 16-foot wide)
ship in June, after it was found
in a rice field in Thaikal, a
coastal village some 50 kilome
ters (30 miles) south of Cochin,
the state’s commercial hub.
After centuries of land
buildup, the ship was 50 meters
(160 feet) deep in the inland
field when workers tilling the
field two years ago noticed its
wooden planks protruding.
“Parts of the vessel that we
have excavated are sure to throw
up lots of light into the maritime
activities in India centuries
back. We are now going to
organize an international confer
ence of maritime and archaeo
logical experts to unravel the
mystery of the ship,” P.K. Gopi,
head of the Center for Heritage
Studies, told The Associated
Press on Thursday.
The center conducted the
excavation and will host the
convention in January.
The base of the ship is intact,
Gopi said. “We have also
unearthed many wooden por
tions, seven small wooden
shelves, different types of shells,
pieces of ropes and bamboo
from the vessel.”
After carbon-dating tests on
the ship’s wood, a local variety
called Anjili, Gopi said, “We
believe the ship to be approxi
mately 920 years old.”
“But the techniques used in
making this vessel are definitely
not Indian.”
He said he believed the
builders were from China,
Japan, Egypt or an Arab country.
Experts from Texas A&M
University and Southampton
University in Britain have visit
ed the ship.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Iran turns over
documents it says
explain its nuclear
program
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Iran
on Thursday handed over to
tie U.N. nuclear agency docu
ments on its past atomic ener
gy activities, calling the dossier
a full disclosure of a program
the United States contends
masks a covert weapons effort.
“We have submitted a report
fully disclosing all our past
activities in the nuclear field,”
All Akbar Salehi, Iran’s repre
sentative to the Vienna-based
International Atomic Energy
Agency, told reporters.
Neither Salehi nor IAEA
Director-General Mohamed
ElBaradei would say what the
package of documents con
tained, but ElBaradei said he
expected the information to
answer all outstanding questions
about Iran’s nuclear activities.
Poetry
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monthly poetry slams take place.
A&M is currently working
to put together slam poetry
readings. Jeff Stumpo, a grad
uate student studying English
at A&M, will be the designat
ed “slam master” who will
run the competitions.
“I’d originally pitched the
idea of a poetry festival that
would take place over the span
of a weekend,” Stumpo said.
“But then we decided to do a
poetry slam instead.”
The Literary Arts
Committee plans to hold quar
terly slams with prize money.
The first of these will be held
on Nov. 20 at 8 p.m., location
to be announced. More infor
mation on poetry slams can be
found at the Poetry Slam
Incorporated Web site at:
www.psi.com or www.dal-
laslams.com.
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