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Old 17th Jan 2002, 09:56
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gordonroxburgh
 
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For info :

The entire Final report is now available on the BEA's website. The English translation is avilable as a 12Mb PDF.

<a href="http://www.bea-fr.org/anglaise/actualite/concorde-en.htm" target="_blank">BEA Webpage</a>.

Lots of intersting comment; but it does say that the tyre bust was the cause and really not matter what else went on the burst and the resulting fire would have caused the aircraft to crash with the loss of all on board. This is due to the damaged the heavy fire was having on the systems and airframe.

An interting point is noted that if they hade decided to stop when the FE said "Stop" they would still have been at around 70kts. This is what was picked up by the media (BBC) as the report says that they whole aircraft would have been engulfed in flames due to the damage of a crash at 70kts and the level of fire that was present. A figure of 100kts is also talked of for an even later call to stop.

AF procedures for ground ops as expected do come in for pretty heavy pounding.

The report is worth the 12MB download as it does really explain what they understand to have gone on.
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