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No, it never was a practical aircraft and became obsolete, unsafe, and unmaintainable.

In the 1960s when it was designed the US, USSR, and Canada also designed similar SSTs. Only the USSR actually succeeded in building and flying theirs. However due to environmental issues, concerns over property damage from sonic booms, rising costs, etc. all of these other projects were ended by the 1980s.

Eventually those issues caught the Concorde too, and following some serious accidents including the complete loss of one plane and all aboard when a tire blew out after running over debris on the runway, it was decided to end it too.

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