...and how about a staement giving the MTOW, ATOW and RTOW on that fateful day - or the culture behind the decision when knowingly facing a take-off close to, if not beyond the limit, just to go for it <<Top!...>> without bothering to recompute the performance figures, or the culture which allows a FE to shut down an engine still producing thrust without the shutdown being commanded.....
I hope that the BBC do an analytical follow-up on this report without the emotional bull$hit spouted by the French pilot in the last documentary <<Captain 'utchinson - 'ee iz in lerve wiz zees airplan'>>. It is not that hard to get hold of a Concorde ODM, the weather for the day and the transcript of the CVR and to replicate the take-off performance calculations in the cold light of day. I still believe that the Commander started his take-off roll well knowing that the aircraft was overweight for the conditions....we need to know WHY he chose to do so!!
[ 30 December 2001: Message edited by: BEagle ]</p>