| Sumario: | At press time, preliminary findings of the French government's technical investigation into the fatal collapse on May 23 of the year-old concourse building at Roissy Charles de Gaulle International Airport, just north of Paris, France, were due out in late June. Meanwhile, a parallel investigation into the circumstances surrounding the four deaths caused by the sudden collapse is under way. The structural failure occurred at a section of the flattened tube-shaped concrete building designed by architects and engineers of the owner, Aéroports de Paris (AdP), a state company.Only about 4 percent of the 2,130-foot-long concourse structure was directly affected by the collapse, but the fate of the entire building remains uncertain. While investigations continue, the Terminal 2E complex has been closed; however, AdP reports no faults with the linked 1.12-million-square-foot main passenger building served by the concourse.
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