The claim that a metallic strip caused the crash was disputed during the trial both by witnesses (including the pilot of then French President Jacques Chirac's aircraft that had just landed on an adjacent runway when Flight 4590 caught fire) and by an independent French TV investigation that fo...
Orders totaled up to more than 100 aircraft, but when the 1973 Oil crisis and 1973-1974 Market Crash struck, most of the airlines who had placed orders for the aircraft cancelled delivery. However, due to political restraints, British Airways and Air France both recieved theirs, and Braniff ...
The numbered events are those involving at least one passenger death where the aircraft flight had a direct or indirect role, and where at least one of the dead passengers was not a stowaway, hijacker, or saboteur. 25 July 2000; Air France Concorde near Paris, France: The aircraft was on...
While Concorde had initially held a great deal of customer interest, the project was hit by a large number of order cancellations. The Paris Le Bourget air show crash of the competing Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 had shocked potential buyers, and public concern over the environmental issues presented ...
With One Crash, Concorde Ranks Last in Safety; Fewer Flight Hours Skew StatisticsDon Phillips
203 F-BTSC 31st January 1975 25th July 2000 Destroyed in air crash outside Paris, France N/A N/A 204 G-BOAC 27th February 1975 31st October 2003 Manchester Airport, England, UK Download Find on Map 205 F-BVFA 27th October 1975 12th June 2003 Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, ...
The history of aviation is full of notable X-Planes, a number of which heralded in new generations of flight. The Bell X-1 became the first aircraft to break the speed of sound during level flight in 1947 with the legendary Charles “Chuck” Yeager at the controls. A few years later th...
F-BVFB is flown to Istres, France where it is subjected to a number of tests by the team investigating the Paris Concorde crash of July 2000. 2001 – Aug 24th F-BVFB is the first Air France Concorde to take to the air having been subject to the post Paris crash modification programme...
"That is what this historic new route is all about. There is real enthusiasm from our customers for this project. "This is BA at its best - stylish, British and ahead of the game. Reviving the BA001 flight number for the first long-haul route out of London City could not be more...
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