Jackonicko,
I've read (at least) part of the scrupuleous work made by the Sun's (or the Mirror) journalits on the Concorde crash (fortunately, there's scrupuleous and serious journalists as the Sun's (or the Mirror's) ones are well known for, to make the investigations while the professionals experts botched it)
and :
I) J.C. Marty was the scheduled pilot for this flight, and came for it from the "Cote d'Azur" were he lived
All the other stuff is of this water: aproximations or occasionally pure lear:
exemple: the "unofficial investigation" blame the pilot for having made the rotation well above the nominal VR (Rotation speed), if you take the time to read the Concorde-FDR informations, in the BEA web site, you'll soon see than the Concorde began his rotation at 200 Kts, the nominal VR
IE: the above blame is pure lear...And the whole thing is of this sort of stuff....
MGloff