Concorde Crash a Tragedy, But Is It a Crime?

I am at a complete loss. Is was a very sad accident, but that is exactly what it was an accident!

I believe there was a criminal act within the French "FAA": failure to demand that design deficiencies be corrected. After years of repeated fuel tank punctures on takeoff, the Concorde was still permitted to fly. These incidents were investigated, and the corrective actions were not demanded by aviation authorities. My guess is that this was handled a lot like the pre-Challenger O-ring problems: the problems were swept under the rug. Where the safety of the flying public is concerned, this lack of action seems criminal.

I guess those wacky French don't realize that New York isn't a part of France. If there was any crime it was committed on US soil and would only be actionable in a US court... Although... if the want to play it this way... I think maybe the shareholders of Continental should file legal papers against the French judge... and then maybe go for SEC violation for attempted market manipulation... Oh... and while we're at it... I stained a tie with French's yellow mustard last weekend... can I sue those crazy French for that?

Come on! It was a tragic crash but surely these men are not to blame? Just another example of today's society where somebody has to 'pay' for bad things happening to other people. Sometimes life just sucks - its not necessarily someone elses fault.

It is strange that CDG is not arraigned.

There should be radar/instrumentation, or whatever, to detect if there is any "extraneous matter/material" falling off a plane, or left on the runway after a takeoff.

I am not a statisctian, but surely bits have fallen off planes before? And this should be global standard practice,

The AF Concorde should NOT have been cleared to use the runway.

The errant body is ADP.

Thank you - Tim Conroy

Continental have replaced parts of one of its plane with cheaper ILLEGAL parts, playing with security for profits, one of their illegal parts has fallen on the runway and it is at the origin of 119 death. But for some people here "nobody is to blame", no accountability or responsibility for blatant errors if not criminal negligence, nothing... :rollingeyes: Well folks, justice will tell.

@ Yirmin Snipe

Your ludicrous while francophobic nonsense made we laugh. You should rather sue your parents for such a failure.

Where can i find a list of the people who died on that plaine crash with the concorde in 2006. It's possible that i know a few people who were on that plain. It's important for me. Please?

I dispute the titanium strip theory, from the get-go.

There is one image, widely distributed, that completely refutes the strip theory. The image of the flaming bird just after takeoff. Clearly the Concorde is far left of the runway centerline, perhaps 200 feet or more when the picture was taken, as the Concorde was 50 feet off the ground. Take a look for yourself and see the truth.

How did a plane with four 100% functional engines manage to find itself so far left of center, at 50 feet altitude? The strip theory claims punctured tank, with engines apparently working nominally until fire affected them later on in the doomed flight. The only way the Concorde could be so far left of center is if the right side engines were producing far more thrust than the left.

What we had was a dual engine (left side) un-contained turbine failure, which then punctured the tanks.

This was not the fault of the French, the Americans, or even outer-space aliens.....it was an unfortunate accident. Turbines do fly apart at times, and this time it was a disaster.