Thanks. Although it was just the fact that I saw the story on teletext about an hour after it happened, and I saw there was not yet a thread in R&N. Was quite big news as you can see.
Yes the original story was not quite correct, but I put the word 'emergency' in the title as that was the way it was reported with very scant detail about an hour after it happened. At that stage it is impossible to know the severity of the problem - but a problem of this type could certainly warrant an emergency if the pilots believed there was any danger. The point of this site is to get the facts as soon as possible, and correct any misreporting as soon as possible.
Every time I see Concorde fly over now I think to myself it is one of the very last times I will see it, she has been a regular visitor here my whole life. I will miss her.
