Paulo, no I was not a part or even involved in the Investigation team , (and BTW I am not a Brit either but I rather take that as compliment )
I just know some people around and know how to read an accident report ( part of my job).
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Crash Concorde 'almost killed Chirac'
A new book claims French president Jacques Chirac was almost killed in the Concorde crash in Paris in July 2000.
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With such a start allow me some doubts as to the rest of the claims in that book.
The ( minimal ) overweight take off is well documented in the report. It had no influence on the crash. Wind or no wind .We are talking a supersonic aircraft with re-heat , not about a 737.
The missing spacer conspiracy is another story which I personally do not believe ( but I can be proven wrong of course ) for the simple reason that : if that was true the BEA guys would not have been developping the metal strip issue in that lengh . The words " possible" or " probable " would have been used far more ofen in that part of the report.
Lastly Air France is suing Continental for the missing DC10 strip, so either they are fools , as something could come out at the trial , big risk for both AFR and the credibility of the BEA, or they know something you and I don’t .
I do not think AFR would bother suing COA if they were not sure of their facts.