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The source of this accident is clearly an individual who chose to do something his way rather than the approved way.
From the info available, I suspect that - under UK law - Continental senior management would have been charged with manslaughter.
I suspect not, a charge of corporate manslaughter takes a lot of justification and proof of wilful neglect of duty.
I also suspect that a BA Concorde would have survived the incident as they all had modified tyres with precisely this kind of risk in mind.