Brit312 said:
<<Concorde always took off at full power including Reheat, but it did have an emergency power setting called " Contingency Power " which increased each engines power by 5 % . >>
True.
<<Contingency power would be automatically selected at T/OFF power as long reheat selected and the CTY button pressed ( part of the T/OFF checks ) if an engine lost power. >>
Not actually part of the take off checks, but I can see what you are saying.
<<Just to touch on another bit of this story it would not have made too much difference about the F/E shutting down the engine so early to the initial perfomance >>
Not quite. It made all the difference in the world. If they had kept the No 2 engine going, they would have had enough power to get safely airborne at the correct speed. With power from 3 engines, and at the correct speed, they would have made Le Brouget. By the crew shutting down the engine on rotation (which was below normal speed anyway), they made it certain that they would crash.
You then went on to say....
..an absolute load of crap about tyres being ingested into the engine...
No significant tyre debris was ingested into the engine. The tyre had blown well before the engines started playing up. There was some debris found in No 1 engine, but that was from runway edge lighting.
Read the report, Grasshopper, read the report.
GordonRoxburgh;
The whole accident was a catalogue of human error, ignorance, and a cavalier attitude on the part of the operator.
It was avoidable, and the fact that Air France did not avoid it, and that the French authorities have seemingly turned a blind eye in the cause of National Pride is bordering on the criminal.
IMHO, of course.