Please look at who 'released' this report.. a lawyer representing the family of the Captain of the Paris aircraft.
Sadly the cynic in me reads that as a CYA exercise... place blame on the aircraft first.. then whatever the crew may or may not have done was irrelevant as the aircraft itself was dangerous and everybody knew it but was covering up...
Statisitcally Concorde was a very dangerous aircraft ot fly on.. limited hours overall and a single massive accident serves to skew the figures....
But she was looked after more carefully than any other aircraft ever used in commercial service, flown by highly trained and skilled crews and maintained by equally dedicated and skilled ground staff.....
Yet she is still viewed as dangerous...
But before you start bashing the USA or saying she was all British and aren't we wonderful and let down by Governments remember who released this report.... and also remember that without the Government Concorde would never have entered commercial service at all..