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As Air France Flight 4590 taxied into position on Charles de Gaulle Airport's Runway 24, Captain Christian Marty's eyes would have carefully scanned the 1960s-era round gauges in the Concorde's cockpit for any signs that the No. 2 engine was acting up. He didn't need...
As all jet pilots do, Marty and Marcot would have taken one last, careful look down the runway, looking for objects on it--anything from a stray airport truck to the dreaded flocks of birds, which have caused problems for pilots at Charles de Gaulle for years. Marty knew the...
There are three key speeds that jet jockeys worry about when they are rolling down a runway: V1, VR and V2. Marcot would have called out the speeds as they passed by: V1, the "takeoff-decision speed," at which pilots decide to continue or abort their takeoff; VR, the speed...
But at that point the plane was well past the go/no-go point, traveling at more than 210 m.p.h. A red light--perhaps a cascade of them--should have lit up the Concorde's flight-control panel. The flames coming from the two left engines suggest that they still could have...
After the crash, Air France asserted, perhaps prematurely, that the crash was due not to any wing problem, like sneaking cracks, but to an exploding engine. That makes it the fastest investigation on record. They have not grounded the fleet beyond a thorough maintenance check, which on these delicate birds...