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The 1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash of Sunday 3 June 1973 destroyed the second production model of the Russian supersonic Tupolev Tu-144.The aircraft disintegrated in the air while performing extreme manoeuvres and fell on the town of Goussainville, Val-d'Oise, France, killing all six crew members and eight people on the ground.
In 2003, after the retirement of Concorde, there was renewed interest from several wealthy individuals who wanted to use the Tu-144LL for a transatlantic record attempt, despite the high cost of a flight readiness overhaul even if military authorities would authorize the use of NK-321 engines outside Russian Federation airspace.
One of its tires burst and its pieces hit the fuel tank and ignited a fire. The Concorde stalled and crashed on a hotel in Gonesse, France. All 109 on board and 4 people in the hotel are killed. 22 June 2003 - Air France Flight 5672, a Bombardier CRJ100ER operated by Brit Air for Air France crashes on approach. Of the 21 passengers and 3 crew ...
The supersonic aircraft suffered a catastrophic crash in Paris on 25 July 2000. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
The crash resulted in a ban on passenger flights of the Tu-144. Combined with other issues involving the Tu-144, including an earlier crash at the 1973 Paris Air Show and complaints about reliability and passenger comfort, this caused a lack of interest in the Tu-144, which ultimately led to the demise of the Tu-144 program.
The Concorde that crashed was the primary aircraft extensively used in The Concorde ... Airport '79. [61] 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 ...
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.
A former spy said that the Soviets may have been given incorrect information about Concorde, which may have contributed to the Tu 144 crash. [5] [6] On Thursday 22 August 1996, Channel 4 broadcast an hour-long documentary Konkordski [7] [8] about the Soviet espionage of Concorde. [9]