Air Disasters - Concorde

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During the plane's take-off run from Charles de Gaulle Airport, a piece of titanium debris on the runway ruptured a tyre, which subsequently burst. The piece was about three centimetres wide and nearly 50 centimetres long. A large chunk of tyre (4.5 kg) struck the underside of the aircraft's wing structure at over 300 km/h rupturing fuel tank number 5 above the landing gear. Leaking fuel was ignited by an electric arc in the landing gear bay or through contact with severed electrical cables. At the point of ignition, engines 1 and 2 both surged and lost all power, but slowly recovered over the next few seconds. A large plume of flame developed; the crew then shut down engine 2 in response to a fire warning.

Having passed V1 speed, the crew continued the take-off but they could not gain enough airspeed on the three remaining engines, because the undercarriage could not be retracted. The aircraft was unable to climb or accelerate, and it maintained a speed of 200 knots (370 km/h) at an altitude of 200 feet (60 m). The fire caused damage to the port wing. Engine 1 surged again but this time failed to recover. Due to the asymmetric thrust, the starboard wing lifted, banking the aircraft to over 100 degrees. The crew reduced the power on engines 3 and 4 to attempt to level the aircraft but with falling airspeed they lost control, crashing into the Hôtelissimo Les Relais Bleus Hotel near the airport.

The crew was trying to divert to nearby Le Bourget Airport; accident investigators say that a safe landing with the flight path the aircraft was on would have been highly unlikely. SIMULATOR : MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR X
By Wenjie ROX

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[Cessna1541]

you need a better pc

[wenjie639]

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[Ilivemindfreak]

I wonder is running off the runway would save more lives rather than taking off in the sky with 2 engines down and fire the is spreading?

[WWTBAMWinner]

You don't know how long I've been trying to find this.

[emshomar]

that concorde was never over the central /:-(

[dgelevators1]

@Ilivemindfreak no,it would have had the exact same result,in dissimilar fasion

[MrSveners]

u need a bettercomputer

[shihtzu0]

@wenjie639 You Need A New Computer

[CaptainAdlai]

@OceansApprentice Tsk, tsk tsk... You fools are arguing over nothing. It gives me a mixed feeling of depression and humor reading things like these few posts. By the way, OceansApprentice, what country are you from? I'm a junior American aviator and take some (little) offense to that. Captain Adlai

[FGTutorialsUSA]

@OceansApprentice Ha ha ha ha and you're telling me that I'm a brat? Yeah and I'm getting this from the jerk who called me a "little shit," and a "sploit American brat." First off, I was just telling you that I wasn't interested on the subject anymore. I wasn't trying to be rude, you just interpreted it that way. And I don't think your parents are very proud of you for putting down other people's parenting skills when you haven't even met them. That's pure immature. So stick to cloud vids.

[FGTutorialsUSA]

@OceansApprentice dude I posted that 2 weeks ago and I don't even care anymore

[FGTutorialsUSA]

I don't understand why they retired Concorde. It wasn't a problem with the plane, but with the Continental DC-10 that took off before it. It dropped a sharp piece of titanium on the runway, the Concorde ran over it and blew a tire, the shockwave ruptured the fuel tank and lit it on fire. My point is, it's not the Concorde's fault it crashed. They should have kept them in service.

[luukdeman111]

@mboy3515 the crash wasn't the main reason they stopped using it. Concorde was actually one of the safest planes around. maintenance just became to expensive