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Karen696:
I used to live in Freckleton, just down the road from Warton where much of the development work went on.  As a (very young) child, at school I saw a number of the first test flights from the school playground and many of my school friends dads worked on the project.

Twas a sad, sad day when they took it out of service. :(

WishIhadaLandy:

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My grandad worked on concorde, he said the french half of the project weren't always very co-operative.  :?

Evilgoat:
It was and still is the safest jet airliner ever flown.

So many reasons were given for the crash but at the end of the day it was due to cost cutting making people cut corners. The same cost cutting later grounded the plane as uneconomical and supposedly unsafe.

Shame Maggie hammered the nails into the HOTOL coffin otherwise she'd have been retired due to being redundant :)

tonycougar:

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It crashed due to pilot error among other things???
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it crashed due to bits of debrie on the runway being sucked up into the engine
not pilot error
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Yes but like all aircrashes it was a catalogue of errors making a chain. The aircraft should have been able to take off on one engine. Why didn`t it get shut down?
The aircraft was overweight.
The aircraft also took off with the wind instead of into wind like most aircraft do. If it had taken off into wind it would have had enough power/lift to take off with one engine.
Basically if it hadn`t been overweight and took off the correct way accident may not have happened, or at the very least it would have been survivable.

Saw all this on discovery channel. An old concord chief pilot said it.

littlepow:
Problem with planes is that during take off and landing, they lack power speed and height. This makes very little margin for error, or time for pilots to react.
They used to say that jags had 2 engines, so when 1 failed the other could get it to the crash site! :roll:

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