CDG has oodles of runway. Concorde has oodles of power. Do we know that the 7 knot tailwind was a causal factor in the accident? The Captain may have made a poor decision in not making new performance calculations but the tailwind did not cause the fire. For all we know he may have taken off into a decreasing tailwind!
On the Classic in BA the Flight engineer could shut down an an engine with no reference to the Pilots. On the ground, on the landing roll, if the engine surged in reverse.