There are to many negative reviews about Concorde, fact is she was and IS the safest passenger plane in the ever made. The Paris crash was NOT her fault, she ran over a bit of metal from a DC10 which took off before Concorde did. When it was Concorde's turn no one bothered to check the runway for debris of any kind. Concorde took off at full power, ran over that bit of DC10 which shredded the tyre and that caused the fuel leak, fire and crash. Concorde was never as expensive as people say she was ........... that was myth made by people who hated her or didnt know much about her. If she was as expensive as people say BA (being a private business which needs to ...  Read the complete review

After over 27 glorious years Concorde will retire for good gracefully on Friday 24th October 2003. Three Concorde will land one after another for the very last time at Heathrow at 4:00pm from Edinburgh after a five day trip to main UK Airports to give as many People the opportunity to see Concorde for the last time. Second Concorde landing will come from The Bay of Biscay doing a supersonic loop across the Atlantic Ocean. The final Concorde to land will be flight BA002 from New York before making its final approach to Heathrow joining the other 2 other Concorde  Read the complete review

As we will keep on hearing about the tragic news of the Air France Concorde and all the unfortunate people that it has been and will be blamed upon until the crash report is released. I think that no one is to blame about the crash and it is just one of those frailties of technology in modern day life. Nothing is 100% safe or relies upon certain people to make it 100% safe, it’s just like a car breaking down. No one knows when it’s going to happen, it’s not the mechanics fault, drivers fault or the retailers fault. It is said that days before a pilot reported that the Concorde had back thrust problems, and then the next day a pilot refused to fly the ...  Read the complete review

I think all of us we have heard about concorde disaster. Apparently the risk of explosion due to uncontained failure of rolls- royce snecma olympus engines593 that power concorde was first raised in 1976. A report by british aerospace suggested that in a case of catastropic engine failure a fragment of hot metal could enter the fuel tank causing explosion. Rarely for civil aircfaft, concorde four engine are embedded in the wings next to the fuel tanks. The risk was dismmised at atime as improbable. During his visit to the scene Air France managing director Jean-Cyril-Spinetta blamed engine failure as the the cause of the explosion. Aircraft experts confirm ...  Read the complete review

The latest update to this tragic story is that the engine that failed and downed the Air France Concorde was in fact the engine that was repaired immediately before the plane's delayed departure. ENGINE PROBLEM DELYAED DEPARTURE OF DOOMED JET It now appears that the doomed Concorde flight had its depature delayed for a few minutes so that engineers could look at a problem with an engine. British concorde flights went ahead today but the French fleet remain grounded. FRENCH U-TURN ON GROUNDING CONCORDE FLEET WELCOMED Thankfully, now the French authorities have made a u-turn and decided to cancel Concorde flights ...  Read the complete review