Beijing - French architect Paul Andreu, who designed the terminal at Charles de Gaulle airport where a walkway collapsed killing five, refused to speculate on the cause on Monday but said he would immediately return to France.
"I'm cutting short my stay here. I am shocked and will return on Tuesday to Paris," he said in Beijing where he is working on the city's new landmark National Theatre.
"I don't for a minute want to speculate on what might be the cause of the accident. On my return, I will place myself at the disposal of the French airport authorities."
He said the design of the terminal might have been "bold", but the materials used were "nothing revolutionary".
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At least five people were killed and three others injured on Sunday when the roof of a walkway that had opened just 11 months ago collapsed at Paris' main Charles de Gaulle airport.
Several tons of concrete, metal bars and glass panelling came crashing down on an arrival and departure passageway at the airport's futuristic Terminal 2E, strewing rubble over a 30-metre area.
A section of the glass-encased walkway caved in, falling onto service vehicles parked below.
At least one of the dead was a Chinese national, a man identified by Xinhua news agency as Wu Xin, a member of a Chinese trade delegation. A female member of the delegation was "missing", Xinhua added.
A Czech woman was also identified among the dead although the nationalities of the other victims were not immediately known.
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