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https://www.airlineratings.com/news/market-concorde-never/
By a pilot, a short but interesting read.
Interesting to hear a French point of view. FiL is also a former concorde pilot (for BA) and he has a very different view.
Ooh do tell.
Interesting quote from the article, given he was a captain, and involved in the investigation for a year:
Here it was a 200-gram piece of metal that made a clear cut into the tire at high speed. That provoked a tire burst, with a huge piece of tire impacting the wing, and then you had this shock wave developing in the tank, and the tank ripping open from the inside to the outside. Causing a massive fuel leak and a blaze of fire, leading to the loss of power in two engines, which no aircraft is certified to withstand. We were really able to objectively reconstruct the sequence of events
My bold.
It’s wrong.
Four engine aircraft certainly are certified to stand the loss of two engines on the same side.
VC10 was. 340 is, 747 is. From V1 you could continue and get safely airborne. Or below V1 you could stop. That’s what V1 is for that class of aircraft.
Well, probably should read “was” since you’ll be hard pushed to find a seat on a 340 or 747 now. And 380s days seem numbered.
And it doesn’t read like a translation error.
Puzzling error.
It is an interesting aspect. FiL said they tried loads of options in the simulator after the accident and there were plenty of ways to not crash. Shutting down the engines was not a good move.
I'll probably misremember a few things but this seems to cover a lot of it https://askthepilot.com/untold-concorde-story/