Flying Pilot Podcast #12 Concorde Revisited, and Even More French History!
Today, we revisit the Concorde Crash from another perspective. Also, more French aviation history from Philippe, and podsafe music.
Direct link to the mp3 here: 
La Grande Semaine d’Aviation
The Reims Air Meet
Concorde Revisited
- Guardian Observer Article
- Looking for Link to “Concorde:Anatomy of a Disaster”
- Podcast #10 Concorde Links
Even More French Aviation History
- La Grande Semaine d’Aviation
- Reims Air Meet
- Capitaine Philippe Ceretti of the Armee de l’Air Francaise (The French Air Force)
Podsafe Music
- Fly by Dusty Hughes on the Podsafe Music Network
- Dusty Hughes’ Website
Here is Cyrille’s e-mail address as I talked about. For my crude spam reduction technique, please change the (at) for @: cfaubry(at)wanadoo.fr
Re: Concorde Crash
I’am struck by the captains failure to maintain airspeed that would have permitted control of the aircraft, even to the point of reducing or pulling the power off ALL remaining engines to regain control and stop the yawing/roll. I have got to believe that landing anywhere straight ahead and under control would have been a better outcome (ala Al Hanes/AA DC-10). Now I understand that airline flying is all about procedures, which is one of the reasons airlines are so safe, but in this case the #1 first rule should be to maintain airspeed and therfore control, even if it means landing other than an airport. Breaking with procdures that clearly were not working out might have saved some lives in this case.
Great job on the podcast,
Doug
Comment by Doug Bradford — May 19, 2006 @ 12:58 pm