nd ignited causing the aircraft to be non-recoverable the end. Blame the fucking yanks they always take our designs and fuck up the only good things we have!!
@rockymountainrandom please fuck off. Concorde was not overloaded on that day as it was not completely full, yes it did have a large payload of fuel but don't pass the blame it was a metal strip that came off an American aircraft due to shocking servicing. The metal strip then sliced the tire (the tire was not to blame) then ruptured the fuel tank and sliced the chord between the undercarriage and the aircraft meaning they were fixed down as the chord controlled the retraction it then sparked a
@schoolvideosJH When did the "yanks" try to take your designs? What does that have to do with AF4590? Suppose you are correct that the only actual cause to the crash was the DC-10's metal strip. Why did they not just enforce runway inspections more? Surely Concorde would not be retired just because of a maintenance error. If the tires didn't have to be redesigned, then why did they retire the plane?
By the way, just so you know the Tu-144 actually flew and broke the sound barrier before Concorde
@schoolvideosJH And the aircraft was indeed over maximum takeoff weight. Plus, the tires on Concorde were redesigned after the crash, and the problem actually wasn't with the Continental DC-10 either. The strip had been installed against the rules from McDonnell Douglas. It wasn't only caused by the American mechanics or the vulnerable tires, no crash is caused by one factor. You can't just say, "The Americans did it" and leave it at that; there was more to the crash.
@Flamorgan Please, I ask you once more to not to be so rude about the United States. You are simply badmouthing the country now, and not giving any evidence to your claims. I respect others' opinions, but if all you are going to comment is trash talking America, please kindly keep your opinions to yourself. It is very insensitive and inconsiderate of you to say things like that, and I see that my supported arguments are not going to convince you, but just please don't speak that way.
@Flamorgan I should also add that Concorde had blown out its tires many times in the past; its tires were very vulnerable to blowouts. Furthermore, the plane was approximately a ton over its maximum safe takeoff weight, and the fact that no regulation runway inspection had been carried out before Concorde took off also contributed to the crash. And please, I want to once again ask to please not be rude about the U.S.A; it is disgraceful that you are jumping to blame our entire country like that.
@Flamorgan First of all, please try to ease up on your usage of the phrase "American junk." The last thing the Internet needs is more racially insensitive comments. Second, the strip of metal on the DC-10 was not caused by the design of the aircraft itself, but errors in maintenance. Also, what I meant by problems was that the Concorde was found to be very vulnerable to situations like what AF4590 was in. Many modifications had to be made to Concorde, which made it too uneconomical to fly.
Oh yes; I agree with the the poet, niselat. "The end of capitalism"
I am not sorry to see it go; I believe that everyone should be enfranchised, as our children are entitled to an education at public expense. No one is complaining about that.
Maya Angelew, the poet, said on a trip on Cocorde, that it was too bad that the world was retreating from supersonic flight with the Concorde; she said that it represented a retreat from what was one of the most noble achievements of mankind; she said it represented a retreat from what is best in us. She was right; too bad the whole globe is growing poorer (because of Capilistm)
What a STUNNINGLY GORGEOUS airplane, it's a shame poor maintainance crews were responsible for it's grounding. IMO, it should have been the other way round.
yes it was its second til last flight cuz from heathrow it flew to manchester and then it landed at manchester it got grounded its not in our hanger wish it was still going ! ;)
I hope they return the Concorde. It's a beautiful structure. I mean it has room for improvement but I thinks it's a waste it has to be retired forever.
@TheKerenabiezz After the crash of Air France Flight 4590, there were several problems found in the Concorde that caused it, and it was the beginning of an end. The problems were fixed, but it became more expensive to operate the plane with increasing needs of maintenance and safety measures, so BA and AF retired their Concordes about 3 years later because it was becoming too impractical to operate. Personally, I think it's sad, but I also don't think it's the absolute end of supersonic flight.
"Some things are worth the expense for the pride of a country."
Unfortunately, this was not one of them.
BA commissioned a team led by Captain Bannister and several others to study/find funding to keep G-BOAF airworthy as a heritage piece, from both government and private, as well as domestic and international sources; and they found none. None serious anyway. The cost to do so would've been huge, and no one wanted to put up.
@newbeefly look up this movie "Mayday" starring Aiden Quinn and Kelly hHu. Shitty movie, but the aircraft used was a fictional SST called the Straton. The design of the aircraft, looked like a 747-200 and a concord mated.
@newbeefly I doubt it. There have been so many proposals for such aircraft that have been cancelled, like Boeing's Sonic Cruiser. And SSTs face so many challenges, like the sonic booms they create, and how much airliners want them.
It would be so cool if SSTs are in the future, especially if they're allowed to fly over land. But I wouldn't count on it.
I mean, I'm sad it's gone too. But it's easy to say that Concorde should still be flying, but the biggest issue of all is that it wasn't making money. And if it wasn't making money it was useless to British Airways and Air France.
They should of at least kept one in flight as a memorial to it, so that other generations could appreciated Concorde in flight, with all that power, speed and beauty. I feel so privileged, that I lived in a time of supersonic flight. Long Live Concorde!!!
They tried that. Mike Bannister headed a program designed to assess, and garner funding, for a program to keep G-BOAF airworthy as a historic monument.
But the problem? They found that:
1) keeping one flying wasn't much cheaper than keeping the whole fleet flying, due to the high specialization of its maintenance regime
2) no one, from cultural endowments, to rich Arab sheiks, to especially Richard Branson, was serious about putting up the money needed.
Stupid DC 10 dropped some stupid straps on the runway and ended Concord... I mean, I'll fly on it if it is still operating, cause its totally safe to me!
@musicvideo291 DC-10 is the worst plane ever, full of flaws all the way through, lots of them crashed. and sadly made a concorde crash ending her service sadly. concorde i believe is going to fly agin in 2012 for the olympics. i was made up when i heard the news. they need make a 400 passenger successor to concorde with green effiecient engines.
your kidding me right? just becuase of ONE crash they shut down concorde? if so. look at DC-10. i mean like cmon people how stupid r u?!?!? BRING IT BACK! WE MISS U!
@Epicvideos333 They didn't stop Concorde because of that one crash they made lots of amendments to Concorde to make her safer and she was allowed to fly again. It was eventually de-commissioned because it started to cost to much to run and was costing more to fly than they were making. So they made the decision to ground it and find cheaper greener ways of flying! Another great piece of engineering history lost to the tree huggers of the world!
Come on! We are in the 21st century people can do anything through the internet, there's 3d technology with no glasses, previously incurable diseases are now curable...another concorde wouldn't hurt anyone! How hard can it be?
@TheJonBola Very. Concorde was harder to design and build than the trips to the moon! It's very expensive and they decided to take Concorde out of service because of the running costs, and they airlines were LOSING money.
this was the most amazing plane in the world....and dont know why they are not running and why they not have any successor for those....i would love to see concorde fly again... cuz i believe they have all safety to fly again....
concorde come back again and shine on the sky's like you did before :)
It brings tears to my eyes, what other Aircraft in the world has ever stirred the emotions of so many people? It has made it's mark in aviation history as "the Concorde era". May it return to the sky once again.
@Xboy751 Not many people used the plane after the crash, and this ended up causing BA and AF to lose a lot of money, so they had to take it out of production.
@Xboy751 It was nothing to do with the airlines. An accident involving an Air France jet doomed it really even though it was not Concordes fault. It was also amazingly expensive to run. Air France had a few 'incidents' with it and didn't give the aircraft much justice unlike BA who had a clean record with Concorde.
Concorde is still perfectly capable of flying today. After the air france crash Concorde was improved drastically and, even so, I never believed that a small strip of metal could bring this great aircraft down.
so sad,something that i found very touching was the guy who was fust infront of the camera with concorde doing a climbing banking turn leaving JFK on her way back to britain and he just said "go girl" in such a wistfull way but it was the last time he would see her again I just felt what he did.
If the Americans could have got over their jealousy that they couldn't make a supersonic airliner and bought into Concorde it would have been improved year on year, but without the Americans the investment just couldn't be found and it struggled to get the recognition it really deserved as an airliner.
I wonder if everyone at the airport aill down tools to watch the last 747 land?
Magnificent bird ,stupid rules ,if deth 300 person in one normal airplane ,no problem if is 10 rich people.that evryone single aircraft should be destoyer.its very sad!!!!!never again we have another like that
UK is now rules by bean counters where everything is measured in hospital beds and single mother allowances. All wrongdoings are blamed on immigrants. I miss the Concorde-ian innovation. Magnificent bird:)
actually they stoped flying them cxause the crash that happend was very bad and it took to much gas to fly it it took almost 240 000 liters to fly it in an hour
@martybhoy72 safety upgrades and maintenance was costing air france and the british airways billions.
The Concorde was ahead of its time.I think its about time to try again, make a second version of the concorde and adjust the ticket prices so that the safety upgrades and maintenance and tech upgrades could be sustainable.
@moke33b *McDonnell Douglas. Not Boeing, although by then, Boeing had acquired McDonnell Douglas. But despite the DC-10's troubled history, it was not caused by the design of the DC-10 itself, just a badly fitted strip.
@ChidoPol, it wasn't Charles De Gaulle's maintenance problem. It was the DC-10's maintenance issue. A chuck of its engine fell off during take off. A 40 centimeters metal from the engine. 5 minutes later, concorde took off, ran over the metal, bursting the tyre and eventually doomed
Actually it was. A well-known design fault that had contributed to more than 50 such underbelly/wing damage incidents in the past, including F-BVFC blowing a hole clear THROUGH her wing.
A single point failure should not be sufficient to down an airliner. That's why it was GROUNDED for over a year after the crash, as kevlar/viton shields, burst resistant tires, rewired undercarriage, etc were all mandated in order to FINALLY address that design fault.
@ChidoPol Yes but they had to make a lot of modifications to Concorde so it wasn't so vulnerable (such as stronger tires, as the Concorde had had many tire blowouts through its years). It was partly the fault of the maintenance crew, but in reality it was a convergence of several events, including the metal strip, the sensitive tires and also the plane was overloaded. Just saying. :)
i miss seein concorde fly over London. you always knew it was there because you could hear it and everybody would always stop what they was doing to look up at it.
Thinking about Concorde's last flight, makes me want to think how this would be almost simular to NASA's final space shuttle mission next year in Fall 2010. It will VERY emotional...
Was in one in Seattle,in the museum of flight......was even more compact than i had previously thought....but Heathrow to JFK in 3 hours,WOW,....still takes nearly 7 hours from Shannon on the A 320/330
What a stupid comment :- The whole ground crew should have other jobs to do but are all watching the last 3 Concorde's!! DAMM F**KING RIGHT NUMB NUTS!!!!!
The DC-10- one of the most unsafe of all aircrafts ruining a fantastic legacy. Couldn't have agreeed with Hutchinson more when he said BAC's should never have been grounded.
i am only 15 years old and i was luckey enough to see it 3 times although liveing in wales i seen it take off over our car from heathrow in 1999 and in its last 3 weeks i seen it at cardiff twice, the first was an emergency landing and the second was on the uk farewell tour
Of course Concorde'sgoing is a disgrace but you cant expect any more now from a country that was once great but now is no more than a lackey of Europe and Americal. However very interestingly I noted in the broadcast how when Concorde pilot remarked very pointedly that BA should never have grounded them how quickly the interviewer changed the subject to the flag flying on the aeroplane. The grounding was obviously a topic not to be gone into perhaps!! She was the most beautiful thing ever!
Il tell you what really annoys me. Just the other night I heard on the news that a cargo DC-10 lost bits of one of it's engines which fell into a residence and left holes in roofs of houses. The same thing happend to another DC-10 which is the reason concorde crashed. What the fuck are they still doing in the air?? SCRAP THE DC-10 AND BRING BACK CONCORDE!!!!!
The concorde didn't retire because it was unsafe, it retired because BA and Air France were no longer making a profit on concorde flights following the crash because of the the extra measures that needed to be put in place and falling passenger numbers.
It is sort of implied in that BA would have gone on if Airbus hadn't forced them out. BA would never have said they would have gone on if it were unsafe.
Airbus withdrawl the type cert for the Concorde aircraft - the one that is registered with them - and so they had to finish flying by Oct 31st. Ba's Concorde fleet was fully operational and could have flown well after the AF ones because Ba did a mid life upgrade.
Simply the most graceful aircraft to ever take to the sky. When it landed it looked like a bird of prey swooping down. It was a travesty that this gorgeous aircraft was discontinued. Should have just learned from past mistakes and corrected them to make it stronger still. :'(
The Concordes will be greatly missed. We are being slowly taken over by too much regulation and government interference. Let these planes fly, let the aviation business be all it can be.
what the hell it crashed only once and they dont let it fly ever again because this was the last flight damn other planes crashed too the concorde crashed by mistake! because of a dc-10
im with you there, but i done some research and they grounded the aircrafts because it was not economically good. it need 100% refuel for each leg. and the tickets price wass up to £7000 per person because it was only 1st class.
Your RIGHT its a disgrace but then why not I mean what else would we expect from this country. I was told and I cannot remember the figures but the actual flying hours that the plane did mean't it was air worthy for teens of years yet. If we have to spend money on the games in 2012 fair enough, then spend some more and get this bird back in the sky for the celebrations and stuff the cost.
I wish Charles De Gaulle ground service could have cleared the runway from debris... They didn't have time, the piece of metal came off a plane that had taken off 38 seconds before concorde...
I swear man..they retired it because of some shit thing on the runway...Its not Concorde's fault.
Trust me this aircraft will b back one day...and all of us WILL fly it...be positive.
Far2Cxii4uu 2 days ago
I will never forgive those people who retired the Concorde. I really wanted to fly on this beautiful plane.
broman178 2 weeks ago
wish concord will be come back one day..nice aircraft.
brianember 3 weeks ago
Jeez! I can't get over that this was very nearly 9 years ago! where the hell has the time gone?
pcferret 3 weeks ago
nd ignited causing the aircraft to be non-recoverable the end. Blame the fucking yanks they always take our designs and fuck up the only good things we have!!
schoolvideosJH 1 month ago
@rockymountainrandom please fuck off. Concorde was not overloaded on that day as it was not completely full, yes it did have a large payload of fuel but don't pass the blame it was a metal strip that came off an American aircraft due to shocking servicing. The metal strip then sliced the tire (the tire was not to blame) then ruptured the fuel tank and sliced the chord between the undercarriage and the aircraft meaning they were fixed down as the chord controlled the retraction it then sparked a
schoolvideosJH 1 month ago
@schoolvideosJH When did the "yanks" try to take your designs? What does that have to do with AF4590? Suppose you are correct that the only actual cause to the crash was the DC-10's metal strip. Why did they not just enforce runway inspections more? Surely Concorde would not be retired just because of a maintenance error. If the tires didn't have to be redesigned, then why did they retire the plane?
By the way, just so you know the Tu-144 actually flew and broke the sound barrier before Concorde
rockymountainrandom 1 month ago
@schoolvideosJH And the aircraft was indeed over maximum takeoff weight. Plus, the tires on Concorde were redesigned after the crash, and the problem actually wasn't with the Continental DC-10 either. The strip had been installed against the rules from McDonnell Douglas. It wasn't only caused by the American mechanics or the vulnerable tires, no crash is caused by one factor. You can't just say, "The Americans did it" and leave it at that; there was more to the crash.
rockymountainrandom 1 month ago
Isn't it strange how you don't miss something till it's gone ?
kerrowmoar4 1 month ago
@kerrowmoar4 Thats life m8...sad but true.
imtheguvnor 1 month ago
@Flamorgan Please, I ask you once more to not to be so rude about the United States. You are simply badmouthing the country now, and not giving any evidence to your claims. I respect others' opinions, but if all you are going to comment is trash talking America, please kindly keep your opinions to yourself. It is very insensitive and inconsiderate of you to say things like that, and I see that my supported arguments are not going to convince you, but just please don't speak that way.
rockymountainrandom 1 month ago
@Flamorgan I should also add that Concorde had blown out its tires many times in the past; its tires were very vulnerable to blowouts. Furthermore, the plane was approximately a ton over its maximum safe takeoff weight, and the fact that no regulation runway inspection had been carried out before Concorde took off also contributed to the crash. And please, I want to once again ask to please not be rude about the U.S.A; it is disgraceful that you are jumping to blame our entire country like that.
rockymountainrandom 1 month ago
@Flamorgan First of all, please try to ease up on your usage of the phrase "American junk." The last thing the Internet needs is more racially insensitive comments. Second, the strip of metal on the DC-10 was not caused by the design of the aircraft itself, but errors in maintenance. Also, what I meant by problems was that the Concorde was found to be very vulnerable to situations like what AF4590 was in. Many modifications had to be made to Concorde, which made it too uneconomical to fly.
rockymountainrandom 1 month ago
bye corncorde this is your final momemt
nicolesuzanne1 1 month ago
bye bye concorde...the greatest of all times
indianDreamCatcher1 1 month ago
Concorde was ahead of it's time. I think we'll see it again in the future, it's too good of a plane not to make a comeback.
godanselmo 1 month ago
that was a very very sad day : (
lionnew 1 month ago
definately a step back in history grounding these planes... booo!!!
coolharry1236 1 month ago
Phi1618ish:
Oh yes; I agree with the the poet, niselat. "The end of capitalism"
I am not sorry to see it go; I believe that everyone should be enfranchised, as our children are entitled to an education at public expense. No one is complaining about that.
HMAR100 / HMAR1 01
Phi1618ish 2 months ago
The end of a time....
france98belgium86tum 2 months ago
Maya Angelew, the poet, said on a trip on Cocorde, that it was too bad that the world was retreating from supersonic flight with the Concorde; she said that it represented a retreat from what was one of the most noble achievements of mankind; she said it represented a retreat from what is best in us. She was right; too bad the whole globe is growing poorer (because of Capilistm)
Phi1618ish 2 months ago
@Phi1618ish a black woman that hates capitalism. what a shock. how could she afford to fly on the Concorde? Oh yeah, she flew for free.
niselat 2 months ago
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Concorde's demise was ultimately due to the yanks trying to preserve their own aviation industry.
We can't have the europeans designing something better than us now can we. !!!
And as for the TSR2......don't get me started, although that also had a lot to do with Harold Wilson being a paranoid fool who had lost his marbles.
ObscureVD 2 months ago
They will not be another plane like the Concorde.
Sandiforty 2 months ago
ego control us
3457357 2 months ago
What a STUNNINGLY GORGEOUS airplane, it's a shame poor maintainance crews were responsible for it's grounding. IMO, it should have been the other way round.
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please everyone visit this site becuase i really want that the concorde flies again.
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mydreamistobepilot 3 months ago
yes it was its second til last flight cuz from heathrow it flew to manchester and then it landed at manchester it got grounded its not in our hanger wish it was still going ! ;)
ilovebrewster123 3 months ago
Was out at airbus Filton just the other day, such a shame to see it sitting there like that
bigbadbenable 3 months ago
i dont understand why they stopped the concord from flying?? will anyone explain to me please?
ukDUBSTEPchannel 3 months ago
@ukDUBSTEPchannel it was highly due to costs of fuel and maintenence, they spent money on fuel but never made an income
SnIpERIR123 3 months ago
I hope they return the Concorde. It's a beautiful structure. I mean it has room for improvement but I thinks it's a waste it has to be retired forever.
19Cadence 3 months ago
There's an extended version of this video on YouTube where you can hear what John has to say.
acrhie131 3 months ago
i agree the idiot reporter ruined what we all wanted to hear and already believe, respect
3wheeltrike 3 months ago
Not last landing - it was a month later
thisiszaphodbeeblebr 3 months ago
That idiot reporter cut off John Hutchinson when he was about to make a really interesting point! (about BA never should've grounded...)
Ugh!
ImmortalSynn 3 months ago
I WANT TO GIVE THAT PLANE A BIG HUG !!!
PS: WHY THE CONCORDE RETIRED?
TheKerenabiezz 4 months ago
@TheKerenabiezz After the crash of Air France Flight 4590, there were several problems found in the Concorde that caused it, and it was the beginning of an end. The problems were fixed, but it became more expensive to operate the plane with increasing needs of maintenance and safety measures, so BA and AF retired their Concordes about 3 years later because it was becoming too impractical to operate. Personally, I think it's sad, but I also don't think it's the absolute end of supersonic flight.
rockymountainrandom 3 months ago
the leading edge of this wing is a masterpiece...
Never should have cancelled this program. Some things are worth the expense for the pride of a country.
I bet no one cared that their baggage was late that day. Glad the sun was shining.
All because of a piece of metal on the damn runway in Paris...
HuskyMaxx 4 months ago
@HuskyMaxx
"Some things are worth the expense for the pride of a country."
Unfortunately, this was not one of them.
BA commissioned a team led by Captain Bannister and several others to study/find funding to keep G-BOAF airworthy as a heritage piece, from both government and private, as well as domestic and international sources; and they found none. None serious anyway. The cost to do so would've been huge, and no one wanted to put up.
ImmortalSynn 3 months ago
Beatifull movie, best landing.
CMSHerbert 4 months ago
The greatest passenger aircraft ever built to date... wonder if we will ever see another SST aircraft for commercial use in the near future.
newbeefly 4 months ago 26
@newbeefly look up this movie "Mayday" starring Aiden Quinn and Kelly hHu. Shitty movie, but the aircraft used was a fictional SST called the Straton. The design of the aircraft, looked like a 747-200 and a concord mated.
shitty movie. Very interesting aircraft.
CefiroGuy3 3 months ago
@newbeefly boeing is planning one:) it should be released in 2021. Name is un-known, but most call it "Boeing 800SP"
Corvette35000 2 months ago
@newbeefly I doubt it. There have been so many proposals for such aircraft that have been cancelled, like Boeing's Sonic Cruiser. And SSTs face so many challenges, like the sonic booms they create, and how much airliners want them.
It would be so cool if SSTs are in the future, especially if they're allowed to fly over land. But I wouldn't count on it.
ACfireandiceDC 2 months ago
@newbeefly I have my fingers crossed :) I know it just has to happen.
rockymountainrandom 1 month ago
I mean, I'm sad it's gone too. But it's easy to say that Concorde should still be flying, but the biggest issue of all is that it wasn't making money. And if it wasn't making money it was useless to British Airways and Air France.
agremeister 4 months ago
They should of at least kept one in flight as a memorial to it, so that other generations could appreciated Concorde in flight, with all that power, speed and beauty. I feel so privileged, that I lived in a time of supersonic flight. Long Live Concorde!!!
dcg12b 4 months ago
@dcg12b
They tried that. Mike Bannister headed a program designed to assess, and garner funding, for a program to keep G-BOAF airworthy as a historic monument.
But the problem? They found that:
1) keeping one flying wasn't much cheaper than keeping the whole fleet flying, due to the high specialization of its maintenance regime
2) no one, from cultural endowments, to rich Arab sheiks, to especially Richard Branson, was serious about putting up the money needed.
So they retired her.
ImmortalSynn 3 months ago
Stupid DC 10 dropped some stupid straps on the runway and ended Concord... I mean, I'll fly on it if it is still operating, cause its totally safe to me!
musicvideo291 4 months ago
@musicvideo291 DC-10 is the worst plane ever, full of flaws all the way through, lots of them crashed. and sadly made a concorde crash ending her service sadly. concorde i believe is going to fly agin in 2012 for the olympics. i was made up when i heard the news. they need make a 400 passenger successor to concorde with green effiecient engines.
guitarplayerforu 4 months ago
@guitarplayerforu thanks for the info mate!
musicvideo291 4 months ago
your kidding me right? just becuase of ONE crash they shut down concorde? if so. look at DC-10. i mean like cmon people how stupid r u?!?!? BRING IT BACK! WE MISS U!
Epicvideos333 4 months ago
@Epicvideos333 They didn't stop Concorde because of that one crash they made lots of amendments to Concorde to make her safer and she was allowed to fly again. It was eventually de-commissioned because it started to cost to much to run and was costing more to fly than they were making. So they made the decision to ground it and find cheaper greener ways of flying! Another great piece of engineering history lost to the tree huggers of the world!
neiltemple 4 months ago
@neiltemple sooo..uhh..we print money...and it gos straight to the goverment to s
upport these tree huggers. What an epic failure.
Epicvideos333 4 months ago
The only time in humanity when we went backwards in aviation...
neekface 4 months ago
@neekface glad to see others think the same as me :(
gonnapumpupthevolume 4 months ago
Come on! We are in the 21st century people can do anything through the internet, there's 3d technology with no glasses, previously incurable diseases are now curable...another concorde wouldn't hurt anyone! How hard can it be?
TheJonBola 5 months ago
@TheJonBola Very. Concorde was harder to design and build than the trips to the moon! It's very expensive and they decided to take Concorde out of service because of the running costs, and they airlines were LOSING money.
MrJbfan2010 4 months ago
That was a sad day !
YaBaDji 5 months ago
@YaBaDji i felt sad that day to. i wish boeing and airbus would make a 400 passenger supersonic airliner.
guitarplayerforu 4 months ago
I really hope they get this up and running again for the 2012 olympics.
NCONiall 6 months ago
@NCONiall ACTUALLY Since Airlines Are getting more money than before! British Airways will bring it back in service
64MojoMan 5 months ago
@64MojoMan What on earth are you talking about?!
GoldLeader272 5 months ago
@GoldLeader272 Im talking about They might Bring The Concorde back!
SINCE Airlines are getting more passengers AND Money
64MojoMan 5 months ago
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GoldLeader272 5 months ago
@64MojoMan You talk bullshit mate, they ain't going to bring Concorde back :'(
GoldLeader272 5 months ago
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64MojoMan 5 months ago
this was the most amazing plane in the world....and dont know why they are not running and why they not have any successor for those....i would love to see concorde fly again... cuz i believe they have all safety to fly again....
concorde come back again and shine on the sky's like you did before :)
0MeNdEz84 6 months ago
It brings tears to my eyes, what other Aircraft in the world has ever stirred the emotions of so many people? It has made it's mark in aviation history as "the Concorde era". May it return to the sky once again.
Oorgawe 6 months ago
Concorde was great but I think it's the time of glass-cockpit aircrafts ,
KamalMoussafir 6 months ago
Air france and british airways are stupid...how come they put this plane out of business...
Xboy751 6 months ago
@Xboy751 Not many people used the plane after the crash, and this ended up causing BA and AF to lose a lot of money, so they had to take it out of production.
zunliwoluk 6 months ago
@zunliwoluk the crash not even concorde's fault, media blames concorde right away = doom
barthoedemaker 6 months ago
@Xboy751 It was nothing to do with the airlines. An accident involving an Air France jet doomed it really even though it was not Concordes fault. It was also amazingly expensive to run. Air France had a few 'incidents' with it and didn't give the aircraft much justice unlike BA who had a clean record with Concorde.
trev711 6 months ago
concorde shall come in the future of mankind, if one man is ever trustworthy to re-built the concorde.
BlackCobrasTV 7 months ago
Concorde is still perfectly capable of flying today. After the air france crash Concorde was improved drastically and, even so, I never believed that a small strip of metal could bring this great aircraft down.
Char1ie473 7 months ago
beautiful airplane, too bad that fuel became so expensive and those crashes... i miss this plane...
1917komunist 7 months ago
when you land in heathrow you can see the concorde when you are going to land i swear!!!
ThePCguy13 7 months ago
I WAS so proud to be British!!
stoweyz 7 months ago
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just like the story of the boeing/sikrosky comanche
AVIV222 7 months ago
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AVIV222 7 months ago
the concorde will be coming back in 2012 and will be in service!! Air France will be getting 10 concordes
saifashioninc 7 months ago
@saifashioninc where did you get this information from please
miniarma 7 months ago
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saifashioninc 7 months ago
Why was it only used for Cross-Atlantic flights instead of over land flights?
KillerAJ 7 months ago
CONCORDE your too beautiful to retired!
retroman808 8 months ago
does anyone know if there are any plans on letting this beauty fly again after it has been improved???
LaRoseNoir5 8 months ago
@LaRoseNoir5 in france theyre working on it and trying to get to fly over for the 2012 Olympics in london
gilljames10 8 months ago
whoever decided to ground concorde had no soul.
GAFAAAAAA 8 months ago
sad
sjmunoz 9 months ago
THIS IS DEFINITELY NOT CONCORDS LAST LANDING!
And is as stated at FILTON, see my video!
I was there!
Stretchyman 9 months ago
@Stretchyman * last landing in revenue earning service on 24/10/03
easyJetAirbus 8 months ago
1:18 concorde is sad it belongs in the sky
nathanfishing3000 10 months ago
Last commercial op.
transonicbuoy1 10 months ago
I was at Charles De Gualle, and they had a real concorde as tribute on how so many people miss it. I wish that I could've brought pics. What beauty!
josephfurmanowski310 11 months ago
they need to start the Concordes up again.
MrJRamal 11 months ago
@MrJRamal A flight would cost around the price of a new car, that was the main reason why the flights stopped.
JVhapu 11 months ago
It wasnt the concords fault it was the continental airplane.
StuartRedman1 1 year ago 2
@StuartRedman1 Well it was also because the runway hadn't been inspected, and they had to improve Concorde's tires afterward.
rockymountainrandom 3 weeks ago
SPREAD THE WORD LETS TRY GETTING A LEAST ONE OF THESE LADIES FLYING AGAIN
save-concorde .co .uk
billytk247 1 year ago
the concorde went out of business because it cost too much money to run.. apparantly.
sonsovsamedi 1 year ago
we miss you concorde....
youvid1000 1 year ago
so sad,something that i found very touching was the guy who was fust infront of the camera with concorde doing a climbing banking turn leaving JFK on her way back to britain and he just said "go girl" in such a wistfull way but it was the last time he would see her again I just felt what he did.
ianwalkerdownland 1 year ago
If the Americans could have got over their jealousy that they couldn't make a supersonic airliner and bought into Concorde it would have been improved year on year, but without the Americans the investment just couldn't be found and it struggled to get the recognition it really deserved as an airliner.
I wonder if everyone at the airport aill down tools to watch the last 747 land?
Concorde - Queen of the Skies, forever!
No1Stinger 1 year ago
Concorde RIP from Reading!!!
adammark1983 1 year ago
If only it wasnt grounded and on todays fast advancing technology concord could have been beautiful as the 787 and super high tech
FsimulatorX 1 year ago
Perfect shape and aerodynamics
clip2222 1 year ago
y did they had to stop makeing that plane it was the best hit in 1994
calimeromnz98 1 year ago
trully beautiful. Apparently the reason the TU144 was never a success is because they could not reproduce the font of wing profile. Looks amazing.
A fabulous result of all too rare British French cooperation!
What an aircraft
smilo996 1 year ago
B-E-AUTIFUL! 0:36
waybetterthanu2 1 year ago
concorde is a butiful aircraft
jetfire5091 1 year ago
very very sad day for aviation things will not be the same very sad no moore concordes flying
duxberry1958 1 year ago
A very sad day indeed!
Eastnor100 1 year ago
we definately miss u concorde lmao
MrTastethat 1 year ago
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Magnificent bird ,stupid rules ,if deth 300 person in one normal airplane ,no problem if is 10 rich people.that evryone single aircraft should be destoyer.its very sad!!!!!never again we have another like that
sonnicjr 2 years ago
This beautiful machine looks like it is moving even when stood still on the runway. It was 'born to go' to borrow a line from Hawkwind. Born to Go.
SteffanLlwyd 2 years ago
UK is now rules by bean counters where everything is measured in hospital beds and single mother allowances. All wrongdoings are blamed on immigrants. I miss the Concorde-ian innovation. Magnificent bird:)
jschanna 2 years ago
Nothing wrong with the aircraft should still be flying
BA Sucks!
gre812u 2 years ago 5
actually they stoped flying them cxause the crash that happend was very bad and it took to much gas to fly it it took almost 240 000 liters to fly it in an hour
sanjot88 1 year ago
Amazing aircarft and still no successor. Concorde should be flying today.
martybhoy72 2 years ago 105
@martybhoy72 in the UK there is a campaign group to try to get one ready to fly for the london olympics.. save-concorde.co.uk/
mgbsheep 1 year ago
@martybhoy72 there will never be a successor Concorde was one of a kind, she is the rightful Queen of the skies
JP4MW 11 months ago
@martybhoy72 safety upgrades and maintenance was costing air france and the british airways billions.
The Concorde was ahead of its time.I think its about time to try again, make a second version of the concorde and adjust the ticket prices so that the safety upgrades and maintenance and tech upgrades could be sustainable.
andre20041997 6 months ago
@martybhoy72 it's an amazing machine but was too advance for it's time
lizotteaudrey 5 months ago
@lizotteaudrey The crash was not fault of the concorde, it was fault of the lazy airport maintenance.
ChidoPol 5 months ago 36
@ChidoPol Wrong, it was the fault of the boeing which took off just before the concorde and which lost a piece on the track.
moke33b 3 months ago
@moke33b *McDonnell Douglas. Not Boeing, although by then, Boeing had acquired McDonnell Douglas. But despite the DC-10's troubled history, it was not caused by the design of the DC-10 itself, just a badly fitted strip.
rockymountainrandom 3 weeks ago
@ChidoPol, it wasn't Charles De Gaulle's maintenance problem. It was the DC-10's maintenance issue. A chuck of its engine fell off during take off. A 40 centimeters metal from the engine. 5 minutes later, concorde took off, ran over the metal, bursting the tyre and eventually doomed
jfkdallas2211 3 months ago
@ChidoPol
Actually it was. A well-known design fault that had contributed to more than 50 such underbelly/wing damage incidents in the past, including F-BVFC blowing a hole clear THROUGH her wing.
A single point failure should not be sufficient to down an airliner. That's why it was GROUNDED for over a year after the crash, as kevlar/viton shields, burst resistant tires, rewired undercarriage, etc were all mandated in order to FINALLY address that design fault.
ImmortalSynn 3 months ago
@ChidoPol well they took it out cuz it cost too much to upgrade all the concorde to b safer after the crash...
awesomeness1290 2 months ago
@ChidoPol Yes but they had to make a lot of modifications to Concorde so it wasn't so vulnerable (such as stronger tires, as the Concorde had had many tire blowouts through its years). It was partly the fault of the maintenance crew, but in reality it was a convergence of several events, including the metal strip, the sensitive tires and also the plane was overloaded. Just saying. :)
rockymountainrandom 1 month ago
best plane ever! :D
mileyooxx 2 years ago 4
i miss seein concorde fly over London. you always knew it was there because you could hear it and everybody would always stop what they was doing to look up at it.
RIP
DubbleTrubbleBubble 2 years ago 2
Thinking about Concorde's last flight, makes me want to think how this would be almost simular to NASA's final space shuttle mission next year in Fall 2010. It will VERY emotional...
151L107 2 years ago
Was in one in Seattle,in the museum of flight......was even more compact than i had previously thought....but Heathrow to JFK in 3 hours,WOW,....still takes nearly 7 hours from Shannon on the A 320/330
noelio67 2 years ago
I wish DC-10's were still in passenger service!
AmericanAirlinesRule 2 years ago
There are...
qwertdr 2 years ago
beautiful bird, the perfect aircraft: Concorde, we miss you!
MogaViorel 2 years ago 69
What a stupid comment :- The whole ground crew should have other jobs to do but are all watching the last 3 Concorde's!! DAMM F**KING RIGHT NUMB NUTS!!!!!
alexrobert13 2 years ago
The DC-10- one of the most unsafe of all aircrafts ruining a fantastic legacy. Couldn't have agreeed with Hutchinson more when he said BAC's should never have been grounded.
gcowings 2 years ago
Piss off. The DC-10 is one of the safest aircraft in the skies.
AmericanAirlinesRule 2 years ago
i am only 15 years old and i was luckey enough to see it 3 times although liveing in wales i seen it take off over our car from heathrow in 1999 and in its last 3 weeks i seen it at cardiff twice, the first was an emergency landing and the second was on the uk farewell tour
cornettoman6 2 years ago
I miss flying on them..... As a passenger and a former airline employee, I miss it....
MarcusLeepapi 2 years ago
Of course Concorde'sgoing is a disgrace but you cant expect any more now from a country that was once great but now is no more than a lackey of Europe and Americal. However very interestingly I noted in the broadcast how when Concorde pilot remarked very pointedly that BA should never have grounded them how quickly the interviewer changed the subject to the flag flying on the aeroplane. The grounding was obviously a topic not to be gone into perhaps!! She was the most beautiful thing ever!
ladymaud100 2 years ago
Il tell you what really annoys me. Just the other night I heard on the news that a cargo DC-10 lost bits of one of it's engines which fell into a residence and left holes in roofs of houses. The same thing happend to another DC-10 which is the reason concorde crashed. What the fuck are they still doing in the air?? SCRAP THE DC-10 AND BRING BACK CONCORDE!!!!!
chrisisdaman3110 2 years ago 3
The concorde didn't retire because it was unsafe, it retired because BA and Air France were no longer making a profit on concorde flights following the crash because of the the extra measures that needed to be put in place and falling passenger numbers.
david181993 2 years ago
BA would have gone on as they were actually turning a small profit. Airbus forced them out.
qwertdr 2 years ago 5
Maybe so, but the fact still stands that it wasn't retired because it was unsafe, as the person I was replying to was saying.
david181993 2 years ago
I never said that fact didn't stand.
It is sort of implied in that BA would have gone on if Airbus hadn't forced them out. BA would never have said they would have gone on if it were unsafe.
qwertdr 2 years ago
Airbus withdrawl the type cert for the Concorde aircraft - the one that is registered with them - and so they had to finish flying by Oct 31st. Ba's Concorde fleet was fully operational and could have flown well after the AF ones because Ba did a mid life upgrade.
Trek001 2 years ago
No. BA and AF aircraft BOTH had the 're-life' project implemented.
I did say Airbus said no and your comment is just a waste of time.
qwertdr 2 years ago
Simply the most graceful aircraft to ever take to the sky. When it landed it looked like a bird of prey swooping down. It was a travesty that this gorgeous aircraft was discontinued. Should have just learned from past mistakes and corrected them to make it stronger still. :'(
Planetwatts 3 years ago
The Concordes will be greatly missed. We are being slowly taken over by too much regulation and government interference. Let these planes fly, let the aviation business be all it can be.
discoii004 3 years ago
what the hell it crashed only once and they dont let it fly ever again because this was the last flight damn other planes crashed too the concorde crashed by mistake! because of a dc-10
what the hell?
FSXairpilot 3 years ago 4
im with you there, but i done some research and they grounded the aircrafts because it was not economically good. it need 100% refuel for each leg. and the tickets price wass up to £7000 per person because it was only 1st class.
poisunoskid 3 years ago
true
FSXairpilot 3 years ago
bring her back yes
tdc310 3 years ago 6
Your RIGHT its a disgrace but then why not I mean what else would we expect from this country. I was told and I cannot remember the figures but the actual flying hours that the plane did mean't it was air worthy for teens of years yet. If we have to spend money on the games in 2012 fair enough, then spend some more and get this bird back in the sky for the celebrations and stuff the cost.
richardmark561 3 years ago 3
An absolute disgrace that this isn't flying anymore.
CheshireQueen1 3 years ago 4
I wish Charles De Gaulle ground service could have cleared the runway from debris... They didn't have time, the piece of metal came off a plane that had taken off 38 seconds before concorde...
rockdrumparamore 3 years ago
What a beauty!!!
bring her back!
coyotes3344 3 years ago 3
wow! look at that flare!
flightsimrocks 3 years ago 3
Just look at her. If she was created today she would still look stunning.
Pete4000uk 3 years ago 3
greatly missed bring her back!
Taffmyster1 4 years ago 3
Boy do i miss seing her in action!
Alanjansenlage 4 years ago 3
i miss *being* on her
Trek001 3 years ago
A nice piece of aviation history
Jeffgoalie 4 years ago 2