The question should not be who dropped the titanium, but rather if it was reasonable to expect that the concord would never come in contact with such materials on the runway given their use in aviation, and how the design was built to survive such a contact or procedures to avoid such events occurring.
A critical question seems to be if the aircraft was so susceptible to debris on the runway then why was an inspection not mandated before each movement. This was not the first time material had caused issues for the aircraft, and other factors combined did push it beyond the limits.
To believe that a commonly used metal would not appear on a runway during the life time of the use of this aircraft was a massive assumption. Many aircraft in the past have impacted such objects.
Last edited by Phalanger; 5th Dec 2012 at 03:34.