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The timeline and causes of the crash were profiled in the premiere episode of the National Geographic documentary series Seconds From Disaster. [62] NBC aired a Dateline NBC documentary on the crash, its causes, and its legacy on 22 February 2009. [33] Channel 4 and Discovery Channel Canada aired a documentary called Concorde's Last Flight. [63]
The 2010 trial involving Continental Airlines over the crash of Flight 4590 established that from 1976 until Flight 4590 there had been 57 tyre failures involving Concordes during takeoffs, including a near-crash at Dulles International Airport on 14 June 1979 involving Air France Flight 54 where a tyre blowout pierced the plane's fuel tank and ...
Auriol set the following speed records: [4] [5] 12 May 1951 - Auriol set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale- (FAI-) ratified average speed of 818.18 km/h (508.39 mph) [4] flying a British-made Vampire over a 100-km (62.1-mile) closed circuit in France from Istres, outside Marseilles, to Avignon and back to claim the women's world air speed record from its previous holder, Jacqueline ...
The supersonic aircraft suffered a catastrophic crash in Paris on 25 July 2000. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
The fuel burn for Concorde was four times more than today’s British Airways Airbus A350, which carries three times as many passengers. Twenty-first-century travellers are far more comfortable.
In 2003, Lewis Whyld took an instantly classic photograph of the Concorde on its last flight, soaring over the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, United Kingdom.
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
The official handover ceremony of British Airways' first Concorde occurred on 15 January 1976 at Heathrow Airport. Air France Concorde (F-BTSC) at Charles de Gaulle Airport on 25 July 1975, exactly 25 years before the accident in 2000 British Airways Concorde in Singapore Airlines livery at Heathrow Airport in 1979 Air France Concorde (F-BTSD) with a short-lived promotional Pepsi livery in ...