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Old 12th Sep 2010, 18:03
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It is highly questionable whether they could ever have made it to Le Bourget – regardless of the number of functioning engines or the position of the landing gear.
This simulator training mind set is still with us today; because if you don't get the airplane on a runway then you fail your sim check.

The Concorde only achieved 200' altitude [lower than the height of the air traffic control tower], and the copilot had warned Capt Christian Marty at least three times of decreasing airspeed....but Le Bourget runway was in view only 7 miles straight ahead.

My take is that the airplane should have been landed on a farmer's field straight ahead. It would have been a controlled crash, rather than an in flight stall and uncontrolled crash.

There was no logic in attempting to stay airborne without sufficient airspeed.
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