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This is the story of an air france flight, not just any air france flight but one operated by the venerable concorde. The inspiration for this video came from the video real engineering did on the concorde, where he briefly mentions this incident and me being the nerd that I am needed to dig up all the information that I could now that i knew that such an incident existed. Before we go any further though, dropping a like or a comment really helps with the algorithm! So it would mean a lot if you could do that. Now the concorde is known for basically two things, its raw speed and the one major accident that it had in france. Now along with that major accident the concorde had multiple other minor accidents, i convered one on this channel years ago when the channel was a fraction of what it is now. The interesting thing about this accident is that this accident could have very well saved the concorde that crashed in almost 20 years after this incident took place. Before we get started let me just tell you that this video is based on a french report in well french and i had to use google translate, so if there are any inaccuracies yell at me in the comments, you know what yell at me anyway it helps with the algorithm.
On the 14th of june 1979 a concorde was on its way from mexico city to paris with a stope over in washington's dulles airport. The stopover in dulles was quite fast and the plane was taxiing to its departure runway of 19L, now fun fact on most taxis the concorde burnt through about 2 tons or about 4000 pounds of fuel on its taxi. With the plane on the runway the brakes were reelased at 7:29 pm and 33 seconds the the afterburners of the concorde kicked in, starting the concordes climb to its super sonic cruising speed. Just 36 seconds after the breaks were released the the pilots hit 166 knots. Just three seconds after that two explosions rocked the concorde. Three seconds after the explosions the temperature alarms on the left main landing gear was triggered and an overweight waring was also triggered on the left main gear, the first officer who was in control of the plane felt the plane lurch to the left but it was manageable. But despite this the pilots had to take off from the runway as they were going too fast to reject the takeoff.In the cabin of the plane a passenger sitting in seat 23A saw something that they did not expect to see the wing of the concorde breaking apart, as soon as they saw that they went upto the cabin crew member and said “I saw the wing which burst”, unknown to them at that time this was not the wing breaking apart but the tyre instead. So 46 seconds after the takeoff run was started the pilots took the stricken concorde into the skies of washington,not knowing what was wrong with their bird. As the concorde climbed away from the runway the pilots scanned their instruments to try and figure out what had caused the explosion, their instruments were all in the green but ATC had some bad news for them. Their left hand tyres had blown and the engines were on fire. For those of you that know the history of the concorde that should set a few alarm bells ringing. The final report for this accident has some beautiful yet haunting images of the plane in question taking off and ill throw them up on the screen right now. You can clearly see the fuel streaming out from the left hand side of the airplane. But the pilots had no idea how badly their plane was damaged and they needed to know that before they could land this stricken plane, so they decided to do a low pass over the tower so that the controllers could assess the damage to the plane. The controllers could see that tyres 5 and 6 of the concorde had been destroyed. In the cockpit the pilots were having trouble with the gear, when they commanded the gear to retract the doors actuated but the gears would not go up into the plane. The gear status indicators stayed green indicating that they were still down. At this time the pilots are still debating on whether on not they can push onto paris but they decide against it as
22 авг 2022
