tolipanebas
Your posts are as intolerable as your facts are totally incorrect.
The British didn't 'help build' Concorde it was a JOINT venture between a French and a British firm. No, I am sure the British AAIB would not want to be intimately involved if an American carrier had an accident in an American aeroplane but as the British were very much involved in the design, development, certification and operation of this joint project (Concorde) then I would say that it was technically valuable and morally essential that the AAIB played an active part.
No doubt had this tragedy occurred with a BA aircraft the BEA would have been invited to participate in a British investigation. However they would not have suffered obstruction from the British judiciary. We may not be perfect but we do have a sense of fair play and admit publicly to our failings, often to readily.
Yes the trigger for this accident was a piece of debris. But what is clear, but far from freely acknowledged by those tasked to do so, is that significant other factors were also present that made the situation catastophic.
You clearly have a closed mind and I am afraid your postings add little to constructive debate.
In fact your bigoted opinions serve only to make me angry and I will not be responding further to your questionable postings.
[ 17 January 2002: Message edited by: M.Mouse ]</p>