Exclusive: ‘To see such a beauty fail so catastrophically was hard to comprehend’ – Kay Burley, who was on air for Sky News on 25 July 2000 ...

But Concorde had passed “V1” – the speed beyond which it is not possible safely to reject a take-off . For this flight V1 was calculated to be 173mph.

The 2000 crash of Air France Flight 4590 marked the tragic downfall of the iconic Concorde, the world’s fastest commercial airliner. What began with a piece of debris on the runway set off a ...

In other words, had the Concorde’s construction consortium considered engaging JFK’s surrounding community at the start of their European-based testing program, they would have secured a ...