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Other airplanes have crashed too. I think it was deemed a fairly safe aircraft, they had some trouble with tyres, but that shouldn't be impossible to resolve.
by sandstrom 11y ago
Other airplanes have crashed too. I think it was deemed a fairly safe aircraft, they had some trouble with tyres, but that shouldn't be impossible to resolve.
- notahacker 11y agoIt was retired from service largely because the accident was attributed to a critical design flaw. Sure, that was the only ever Concorde crash, but then they really didn't fly very much compared with conventional aircraft. There are individual commercial aircraft that logged around as many flight cycles as the entire Concorde programme without incident.
- sandstrom 11y agoI know they have recurring problems with tyres (and I'm sure they had other design flaws too). But afaik the main culprit in the crash was a piece of titanium that fell off from another airplane and was left on the runway. This metal-piece cut into the tyre and caused an explosion.