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Concorde at Lisbon: Air France F-BTSC

Lisbon Airport, Portugal view map

1975 Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde 101, c/n 203
1st experimental visit of Concorde to Lisbon
This Aircraft crashed on 25th July 2000
Why Mankind went backward and become poorer?
This explains it all!
http://concordecollectibles.net/?p=112#:~:text=According%20to%20Rob%20Lewis%2C%20in%20his%20book%20%E2%80%9CSupersonic,before%20the%20Gonesse%20crash%20near%20Paris%20of%202000

"British investigators and former French Concorde pilots looked at two factors that the BEA found to be of negligible consequence: an unbalanced weight distribution in the fuel tanks and loose landing gear. They came to the conclusion that the Concorde veered off course on the runway, which reduced take off speed below the crucial minimum. John Hutchinson, who had served as a Concorde captain for 15 years with British Airways, said that "the fire on its own should have been 'eminently survivable; the pilot should have been able to fly his way out of trouble'", had it not been for a "lethal combination of operational error and 'negligence' by the maintenance department of Air France" that "nobody wants to talk about""

Yashica TL Electro ,Sun 70-200mm f/4.5,Kodak Tri-X 400
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Paolo Peggi (aka Bracciodiferro)12-Feb-2020 11:47
Love it! V
Paolo
Dan Greenberg01-Feb-2018 04:49
Great vintage B&W. By the time it crashed 24 years later, it was a relatively old plane by then. ~BV~
GaleriaFotoStefan01-Feb-2018 04:36
History! To bad it crashed! V