Whoa! Is that a conspiracy theory or what was determined to be the fault?
They are documented facts. Make of them what you will;
It was agreed between France and the UK that if any Concord crashed it would be a joint investigation, to a certain extent the French did honour this. The British crash investigating team inspected the undercarriage (they had been serviced during the night) and found that a vital spacer was missing from the "suspect" gear. It was found on the component servicing shelve in the French Concord hanger. Without this spacer, the gear would act like a shopping trolley wheel and at that speed shake its self to death.
Air traffic transcripts prove that the pilot elected to take off with a tail wind.
Baggage handling paperwork shows that Concord had approximately 1 ton of extra baggage onboard from an Air France flight that was delayed and the passengers put on another aircraft. Their baggage was to catch them up via concord.
Also refuelling paperwork shows that Concord had approximately 1 ton of extra fuel that was expected to be used during the taxi out and the first few seconds of the take off role, but the pilot, as shown by air traffic tapes elected to take off with the wind.
Cockpit voice recording shows that the flight engineer did shut down an engine without the say so of the captain and below the safe operating speed for three engines.
These are documented facts. Conspiracy theory, that is for the individual to decide, but Air France was about to be privatised and wanted investors..................
I mealy present, food for thought.
Matt
"A bit of a pickle" - British translation: A catastrophically bad situation with potentially fatal consequences.
PETA
People Eating Tasty Animals.
B1 (Cat C) licenced engineer, Boeing 737NG 600/700/800/900 Airbus A318/19/20/21 and Dash8 Q-400
1. Captain, if the problem is not entered into the technical logbook.........then the aircraft does not have a problem.
2. And, if you have time to write the fault on a napkin and attach to it to the yoke.........you have time to write it in the tech log....see point 1.
by ozzy72 » Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:02 am 
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