Air Crash Investigation - Concorde - Part 1

See what happened to why it's not flying today.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Concorde
• Crash

[Jesus4Shred]

I WANT THE CONCORDE BACK!!!!!!

[WutDurFuk]

its been 4 hrs im low on water still cant find 737boeing8 and r859ab's comment. Must find....

[EthanTBH]

Concordes Looked EPIC... But There PreeShit @ Flying I Rather Go On A DC-10 And know1 Likes Them.

[rogo9k92]

i recen the boeing 797 is goeing to be suppersonic

[JamesMayTheStig]

Bring them back. Fuck running costs just develop more efficient engines

[Futurepast1000]

At least I had a chance to view this plane when it landed at Boston.

[danielgeng]

concorde go`s fly in 2012

[BR75069]

how dare you say that Concorde isn't flying because of this accident! There were NO design flaws at all with this aircraft and this accident was actually caused by a piece of metal on the runway left from a DC 10. The reason why Concorde stopped flying was because of the running costs.

[THETimmyPuckett]

I would have loved to have flown CONCORDE...but i checked British Airways right b4 they retired the lady! But $10K .....not a reality for me!

[jonnybee48]

@kpdsza; agree 100%, M8; however being SS added one more "issue" to an ever-increasing list of things that could go wrong with an AC and could bring it down. Airtech has developed autopilots, slats, flaps, spoilers and all sorts of stuff to make AC more efficient, and put them all under comp control to make them foolproof; however there's now so much of it that even two competent pilots can get overloaded with data when something goes wrong. Time to simplify, perhaps?

[kpdsza]

@jonnybee48 Lovely piece of machinery. Hate to see them go. What amazes me is that with all the computing power available today, we still can't beat the SR-71 and the Concorde.

[jonnybee48]

After that, sales plummetted and costs began to rise as all aircraft had their tanks reinforced; sadly, even though this work had been carried out by the beginning of 2002, confidence in the plane had vanished and it became unviable to run on regular schedules - it was retired in 2003.