Concorde's last landing

Friday 24th October 2003.
BBC News 24's coverage of the final Concorde landing at Heathrow. As some have pointed out, it wasn't Concorde's last ever landing but it was, to my knowledge, the last ever passenger landing.

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[ChidoPol]

@lizotteaudrey The crash was not fault of the concorde, it was fault of the lazy airport maintenance.

[newbeefly]

The greatest passenger aircraft ever built to date... wonder if we will ever see another SST aircraft for commercial use in the near future.

[Far2Cxii4uu]

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.

[broman178]

I will never forgive those people who retired the Concorde. I really wanted to fly on this beautiful plane.

[brianember]

wish concord will be come back one day..nice aircraft.

[rockymountainrandom]

@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]

@StuartRedman1 Well it was also because the runway hadn't been inspected, and they had to improve Concorde's tires afterward.

[pcferret]

Jeez! I can't get over that this was very nearly 9 years ago! where the hell has the time gone?

[rockymountainrandom]

@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]

@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

[imtheguvnor]

@kerrowmoar4 Thats life m8...sad but true.

[schoolvideosJH]

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!!