Capt peackok
Your rightousness so early in the morning is utterly refreshing. Not on my watch.......etc, stop watching too much TV.
Anyway, I grant you there have been some flaws in the way this flight was conducted.
Excuse a sec, but to our Down Under friends, Melbourne is not CDG and no, you do not get the runway you want just because you're Concorde. That it may have been more suitable to wait ? Maybe or surely or whatever. Would it have made a difference ?
The point is that this accident should have occured in 1976 in Washington and that it didn't because God turned out to be french that day. The circumstances were almost exactly the same regardless of the SOP's.
Had captain Marty waited at the treshold to have the right weight and everything, he still would have had a tyre bust hitting that piece of falling apart Continental DC10, it would still have burnt in the same way and 1 ton less or not, it would have been lost due to the uncoverable damages to the aircraft. That's an undisputable fact.
That some of you want to get rid of their frustration trashing Capt Marty's crew and the country, airline and culture they belong to, will, I hope, make you feel a lot better about yourself but will not alter the facts I just mentioned.
Peackock, if you think this aircraft would have made it the way it was burning, remind me to stay home on your next shift.