Thank you M2DUDE,
Can you therefore conclude with any certainty that IF the tanks hadn't been filled 'beyond the brim' that the accident would not have occured?
It seems that all the other factors, CG; spacer; tyre failure; tailwind performance; rough runway; metal strip; in themselves or even combined would not have caused the catastrophic loss of the aircraft.
The fuel shockwave theory (or was it fact M2DUDE?), the overfilled and overpressured tank that set off a 'tank explosion' was what ultimately caused the next sequence of events, the crash sequence.
So who was responsible for allowing/ordering a fuel overload surely THEY/HIM or HER are directly to blame for the crash?
Additionally if this was a 'normalisation of deviation' known to Concorde crews in AF and obviously the BEA, then there is accountability there too, I would imagine?