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Air Disasters – Concorde

During the plane’s take-off run from Charles de Gaulle Airport, a piece of titanium debris on the runway ruptured a tyre, which subsequently burst. The piece was about three centimetres wide and nearly 50 centimetres long. A large chunk of tyre (4.5 kg) struck the underside of the aircraft’s wing structure at over 300 km/h rupturing fuel tank number 5 above the landing gear. Leaking fuel was ignited by an electric arc in the landing gear bay or through contact with severed electrical cables …

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25 Responses to “Air Disasters – Concorde”

  1. megaplanefan says:

    i this done in fs2004 or x

  2. megaplanefan says:

    Yes it did

  3. goccioloni says:

    the concorde didn’t use afterburners on takeoff i think

  4. Cessna1541 says:

    u really want me to pay all that for another new perfect computer…just for u? I need a new one too. I have a vista and it sucks on FSX it keeps freezing right in the middle of a flight. I need like Cessna154′s pc

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  6. Cessna1541 says:

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  7. cedar1998 says:

    no flaps haha the concorde donts get flaps

  8. dondycluck says:

    not accurat,wheres the 747,and the plane didnt stay in the air so long

  9. dondycluck says:

    Yea!

  10. myrandomspaces says:

    oh i thought he slowed down a lil bit cause two engines were out…

  11. lukituchi says:

    No, because of the high speed they would rip-off during flight

  12. BoucherryKid says:

    i’ve flied concorde in FS9 and its one of the hardest planes to fly and land

  13. angolfin212 says:

    Concorde should not be banned,Continental Airways should

  14. myrandomspaces says:

    no flaps???

  15. sawtrycolts says:

    my dad told me about this didnt i the peice come of a departed continental before??

  16. mikedakite says:

    where did u download that concorde ?

  17. cedar1998 says:

    thats not treu his cirkle and cirkle around the airportbut cants lands his tri to land on a road but his was to low and crash in a hotel

  18. Treldman says:

    1. Learn to speak n’ spell in english.

    2. Some saw it rolled over, some say it stalled.

  19. france3345 says:

    The takeoff airport isn’t Charles-de-Gaulle, its in the middle of Paris, but in the vid, it appears that there is small town near the airport.

  20. GCS1992 says:

    if you pay attention to the whole video, maybe you might find that out :P

  21. gunzinsea says:

    you mean air france flight 4590?

  22. Koladikal says:

    kinda boot-leg concorde but awesome video

  23. awsempersen9810126 says:

    that was not how concord crashed first wheres the fule that dround the engin and the spark that lit it and when it was about to crash it did not roll over it stalled with the wings levle and the plane could not turn hydralics where out on the turning so it turned natruly youv got it all wrong

  24. suzie41 says:

    did everyone on the plane die

  25. zehornyangel says:

    wow everythings exactly like on seconds before disaster exept for that metal pole that hit the concordes engine which is probly impossible to do and that before it crashed the nose lifted high up, 90 degrees and then it fell down. great vid.