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If this had happened to Concorde at supersonic speeds, it theoretically could have caused a catastrophic failure of the airframe. Although computer simulations predicted considerable problems, in practice Concorde could shut down both engines on the same side of the aircraft at Mach 2 without difficulties. [102]
(203) was the Concorde lost in the crash of Air France Flight 4590 on 25 July 2000 in the small town of Gonesse, France near Le Bourget, located just outside Paris, killing 113 people. The remains of this aircraft are stored at a hangar at Le Bourget Airport. It is the only Concorde in the history of the design to be destroyed in a crash.
The official handover ceremony of British Airways' first Concorde occurred on 15 January 1976 at Heathrow Airport. Air France Concorde (F-BTSC) at Charles de Gaulle Airport on 25 July 1975, exactly 25 years before the accident in 2000 British Airways Concorde in Singapore Airlines livery at Heathrow Airport in 1979 Air France Concorde (F-BTSD) with a short-lived promotional Pepsi livery in ...
As Concorde nostalgia ripples like a sonic boom across the media this week, remember the Anglo-French grand projet was the polar opposite of democratised, efficient travel. The planet was trashed ...
In 2003, Lewis Whyld took an instantly classic photograph of the Concorde on its last flight, ... it would always be the last picture of Concorde. I was lucky that it happened to be a good one.
The supersonic aircraft suffered a catastrophic crash in Paris on 25 July 2000
The Concorde that crashed was the primary aircraft extensively used in The Concorde ... "Why the Concorde crashed and what happened next". BBC. 26 March 2019.
In a pre-computer age, flight engineers were crucial to aviation. Former Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby explains how he helped fly the supersonic jet.