Destruction of a Concorde

[Aerobatic Flyer]

Does anybody know the story behind these sad pictures? I don't know when they were taken.

I think the aircraft concerned was F BVFD.

http://maripa.free.fr/images/avion/ccd/ccd-1.jpg
http://maripa.free.fr/images/avion/ccd/ccd-2.jpg
http://maripa.free.fr/images/avion/ccd/ccd-3.jpg
http://maripa.free.fr/images/avion/ccd/ccd-4.jpg

The website (http://maripa.free.fr/htm/concorde.htm) they come from doesn't give any details.

[Archimedes]

"F-BVFD (211) was retired early, in 1982, having flown only 5,821 hours. Badly corroded after being stored outdoors, and incomplete after being used as a source of spare parts, it was broken up in 1994."


(Source: http://www.4reference.net/encyclopedias/wikipedia/Concorde.html)

[Jhieminga]

http://www.concordesst.com/211.html

Sad to see, but those were different times I guess.

[Globaliser]

Was this the bird which was chosen to be cannibalised because she'd had a heavy landing somewhere?

[Nopax,thanx]

BA came close to doing the same to one of theirs, IIRC; something to do with hydraulic system contamination. However, after long and careful consideration (and a hill of money spent on repairs) she was returned to service. I don't recall which one it was.

AF must be kicking themselves now for scrapping that one - think of all the bits they could have sold (I see the nose made 300,000 Francs in '95) :ooh:

[Wunper]

Globaliser

I think it was Dakar, expensive thing to get wrong:}

Wunper