FlySSC From Lebanon, joined Aug 2003, 6344 posts, RR: 64 Posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 1168 times:
July 25th 2000, 4:45PM Air France Concorde F-BTSC operating AF4590 to JFK crashed two minutes after take off from Paris-CDG Airport.
Everything has been said about this accident. The subect here is not to debate once again on that accident, but to remember all those who lost their life in that tragedy.
To the Crew : Christian, Jean , Gilles, Virginie, Brigitte, Anne, Florence, Hervé, Patrick , the 100 passengers and the 4 victims on the ground.
MadameConcorde From French Southern Territories, joined Feb 2007, 4633 posts, RR: 23 Reply 2, posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 1156 times:
The same as for TWA800 I will never get over this air crash.
R.I.P. Christian Marty and all others on board.
R.I.P. Concorde F-BTSC. May you always fly in our memories.
There was a better way to fly. It was called Concorde.
Richierich From United States, joined Nov 2000, 3249 posts, RR: 8 Reply 3, posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 1073 times:
I asked this question a couple of years ago - has the site been redeveloped? I know the hotel that Concorde hit was completely destroyed and eventually razed. I believe there was another small hotel immediately adjacent to the doomed building, and that reopened after the crash.
Has anything been built or planned for the crash site/ former hotel site? Or is it currently just an open field? Just curious.
Hard to believe it has been 8 years. So much has changed in the world yet this tragedy still seems fresh and raw.
BrusselsSouth From Belgium, joined Aug 2001, 355 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 1008 times:
Quoting FlySSC (Thread starter): The subect here is not to debate once again on that accident, but to remember all those who lost their life in that tragedy
Thanks for the thread. Like every other accident, a very sad day for the families and friends. In aviation, no one dies for nothing... Hopefully we've learnt something from this tragedy.
Amazing aircraft, amazing technology... Let's remember the victims.
EPA001 From Netherlands, joined Sep 2006, 1010 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 990 times:
Quoting ACEregular (Reply 1): Eight years!!! Can Still remember where I was when the news broke and watching it on TV over and over. So Sad.
I have the same experience every time this tragic moment in aviation history comes up. It is just one of those moments where you immediately know where you were and what you did when the news broke.
In my case I was listening to news-radio when the news broke. I can recollect every moment of that news flash.
May all the victims be remembered and may they continue to rest in peace!
FlySSC From Lebanon, joined Aug 2003, 6344 posts, RR: 64 Reply 8, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 799 times:
Quoting Richierich (Reply 3): I asked this question a couple of years ago - has the site been redeveloped?
Quoting Richierich (Reply 3): Has anything been built or planned for the crash site/ former hotel site? Or is it currently just an open field? Just curious.
Indeed, there is another small hotel next to the former one hit by SC, but the crash site itself is now open and there is nohing on it.
Air France tried to acquire the land where Concorde crashed to build a memorial to the Victims. The possibility to display there Concorde F-BVFF as part of the memorial was even studied but rapidely abandonned.
F-BVFF is now displayed at CDG and a Memorial was finally built next at CDG Airport, not far from AF Headquarters.
You can see cleary the crash site on Google earth.
GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 11087 posts, RR: 83 Reply 10, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 750 times:
A terrible day, which I remember all too well.
It was for me, an early shift in BA Concorde Engineering.
Back home, I was preparing to go out, with a bunch of friends to the BBC to see a comedy programme being made.
The phone rang, it was my mother, she had heard something on the radio 'about a Concorde crashing in Paris'.
My reply, I have to admit, was after the initial surprise, was 'it can't be one of ours'. (BA frequently ran charters out of CDG, we had not done any charters today though).
Nothing on the TV, so I rang work, in fact I rang about half a dozen numbers at work, all were engaged. The chances of that in normal circumstances was tiny.
I had hoped that the radio report mum had heard might have been exaggerated maybe, a RTO or RTB.
Now, it is true what they say about a feeling in the pit of your stomach.
Anyway, as I prepared to leave, intial reports did start on TV.
By the time we got to the BBC, in the reception, the news reports had pics of the burning wreck.
To say my mind was elsewhere for the rest of the evening, was to put it mildly.
Next day was another early shift, but many from other shifts had been called in, as a mass overnight check was done on the 5 operational, the 1 in heavy maintenance, the 1 in JFK.
We were told, as they all were found to be OK, the BA001 would go.
Of course, the world literally would be watching.
But G-BOAF went without the most minor of delays, which we knew would be pounced upon.
In the wake of the AF crash, the previous day, the inbound and outbound flights had be cancelled as a precaution.
BA Concorde Ops, 25th July 2000 all times LHR local;
BA001 / LHR-JFK / G-BOAG / 10.30
BA002 / JFK-LHR / G-BOAF / 13.30
BA004 / JFK-LHR / G-BOAG / CANCELLED
BA003 / LHR-JFK / G-BOAA / CANCELLED
We know the rest, BA would carry on until 14th August. Which some procedures added, (the only time pre-runway checks were done before departures).
But as the thread starter says, this is not the thread for all of that, a search will soon find plenty of threads.
The return to flight programme, an unlikely prospect at first, bore fruit just as the Sept 11 attacks happened.
(Literally for me, I and 98 others was on G-BOAF, as 'pax' on a full simulation of a LHR-JFK, but with a LHR-LHR sector, on that terrible day).
Which would become one of the major factors in the retirement in 2003, but just 2-4 years early, truth be told.
RIP all who died on 25th July 2000 as a result of the crash of AF4590
PlaneInsomniac From Canada, joined Nov 2007, 500 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 718 times:
RIP all the victims of this tragic crash.
The plane had been chartered by a German cruise company. 96 of the 100 passengers were Germans, alongside 2 Danes, 1 Austrian, and 1 US citizen.
One retired AF Concorde was later given to the Auto und Technik Museum in Sinsheim, Germany, partly in recognition of the large number of German victims.
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