concorde's air france flight no. 4590 crashed in gonesse france on 25th july 2000
Concorde's Air France Flight no. 4590 crashed in Gonesse France on 25th July 2000Air France Flight 4590 crashed on July 25, 2000 in Gonesse, France.All 109 people on the Concord, and 4 people on the ground were killed.
It was extremely expensive to operate, the fleet was aging, and the misinformed public asked for it after the crash of flight 4590. The cause of that crash was FOD on the runway that fell off a DC-10. There is a lot of information about that crash on wikipedia just search flight 4590.
Concorde's Air France Flight no. 4590 crashed in Gonesse France on 25th July 2000Air France Flight 4590 crashed on July 25, 2000 in Gonesse, France.All 109 people on the Concord, and 4 people on the ground were killed.
The last and I believe the only serious crash of the Concorde airliner was at the Paris airport. On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, registration F-BTSC, crashed in Gonesse, France after departing from Paris Charles de Gaulle en route to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing all 100 passengers and nine crew members on board the flight, and four people on the ground. It was the only fatal accident involving Concorde.
Due to the Air France 4590 crash, 9/11 attacks, and a decision by airbus to discontinue service resulted in British Airways and Air France retiring their concordes in October 2003
May 31, 2003 for Air France-Last ferry flight to museum was June 27, 2003 October 24, 2003 for British Airways-Last ferry flight (and last flight of any Concorde) was November 26, 2003. The Concorde was not making a profit. After a dramatic and fatal crash of a Concorde, the fleet was grouned and the investigation revealed that some design changes were needed to prevent the accident from occurring again. It was not cost-effective to re-design the Concorde to make it safer and to earn a profit. The Concorde never flew a revenue flight again.
The Concorde's first flight was on March 2, 1969, from Toulouse, France.
Operating costs are more and profits less. With only 20 aircraft built, the development phase represented a substantial economic loss. Additionally, Air France and British Airways were subsidised by their governments to buy the aircraft. As a result of the type's only crash, (on 25 July 2000), economic effects arising from the September 11 attacks, and other factors, operations ceased on 24 October 2003. The last "retirement" flight occurred on 26 November 2003. For more information, try the site below.
No, you cannot unlock a Concorde on Flight Simulator X Acceleration. You can download addons though, I have a link for the Concorde below this question.
July 25th, 2000.
Concorde.