Originally Posted by
Buster15
Agreed. Some people seem to believe that because the crash investigation was carried out by the French BEA that the report was biased in favour of AF and ignored vital information.
It was and apparently it did. Is it a 'conspiracy theory' that following the publication of the BEA report AF tried to lay the entire blame at the door of a Continental Airlines maintenance engineer, a despicable try-on thrown out by the courts?
You only have to look at how that Concorde was being operated to understand the serious inadequacies of that airline. And of course they almost lost another Concorde shortly after it was restored to service when the FE mis-handled a fuel leak and the aeroplane narrowly avoided dead sticking into the North Atlantic when if landed on fumes at its nearest landfall, Halifax Nova Scotia.
No wonder they stopped operating it shortly afterwards, and shortly after that French politicking ended the BA operation as well. They were never going to allow the worlds only supersonic airliner, an Anglo-French aeroplane, to be operated by the British alone.