"I was thinking until the very last moment that something would save the situation". What a very human thing to say. That experience of watching the unbelievable actually happen before your very eyes and in real time. If you've felt it then you know exactly what he means.
I remember when it happened and the first thing I said is that is not going to end well regardless of whatever measures the cockpit crew does, with the fuel and the flame, it would be just a matter of time before it crashes or explodes, or in this case both.
*_All hope in humanity is lost, a meteor the size of the island of Manhattan will hit earth, causing massive tsunamis worldwide, not to mention the dust which will block out the sun for decades, causing mass starvation and possessing another ice age, the greatest one in the history of our planet_* Smithsonian: It's brighter here!
1crash in a over 30 years of service! I truly hope that the Concorde Heritage Group will return their Concorde back to the sky! That will really make me smile!!
I feel bad for the passengers and crew, but especially the crew that did everything to try and get the plane under control and save everyone. RIP all 109 passengers and crew, and the 4 people in the hotel
@@samwisehuluberlu2210 BEA has history of being a corrupt organization - not just here, and the airport even paved over the runway right after, to hide the fact the MLG was skidding like a shopping cart wheel, during the take off roll.
A lot of inaccurate things people are saying in the comments. Heres what really happened. A piece of the engine cowling fell of a continental airlines DC10 as it went down the runway. When Concord later took off it ran over the metal piece causing the tire to pop and chunks of tire struck exposed wiring in the landing gear and also punctured the wings fuel tank causing a leak. sparks from the exposed wiring ignited the fuel causing the fire and bringing the plane down.
@@kai_b1156 I mean, the piece in question was improperly installed by a workshop not certified to work on the DC-10, but sure, it's totally the fault of the DC-10.
It is more complex than that. I am a 777 pilot and I know a couple of former BA concorde pilots, we all agree that the pilot was also in error. The plane probably could have landed at the other airport, but captain Marty rotated before V1 this is a known fact that came out during the investigation. The shut down an engine because they showed an engine fire but this was not actually the case but I would probably do the same if I get an engine fire indication, but not during my take off roll. I would shut it after take off at a couple of hundred feet. The aircraft was overweight and too slow to fly safely, in the opinion of many this was pilot error as someone else has said Concorde was prone to burst tires. There were other factors like the no2 engine having been worked on that day for a faulty thrust reverser the extra luggage being added just prior to takeoff. All these things add up to a number of errors happening all together. Sorry if this upsets anyone but it is only information that is in the report and the opinion of former Concorde pilots.
It's ironic how they grounded the Concorde instead of the. DC-10 which has crashed more times and caused this crash. That's why I call the DC-10 a death trap. Edit: Since I'm still getting notifications 3 years later. I know this isn't the only reason it was grounded. It was meant to be a joke.
it wasnt just because of the crash. Concord was way too expensive to operate and was losing a lot of money and no one could afford to fly it so BA and AF retired it
Imagine waking up in your hotel room after a good night's sleep, getting out of bed, opening up the curtains, and seeing this darting towards you in that few seconds....
It was 4:30 in the afternoon. Even the most determined student would be up by then. Still an unspeakable tragedy. If it had happened in the morning tho...
I will always remember watching the Concorde flying over head from the beach in Sandy Hook, NJ during the early ‘80’s. I have many photos. Tu me manques 😢💔
In the early '80s while playing softball on Sunday mornings along Long Island's south shore, my fellow players and I frequently got to see this magnificent plane making its descent into Kennedy Airport. It reminded me of an enormous pterodactyl.
Slightly Psychotic It lost the control and they were under 20 meters I think 15 but the plane went on the left side when it lost the control and fell down
Today, it is now 20 years since Air France flight 4590 crashed in Paris. This comment is posted at roughly the same time Concorde crashed that day. (Yes, I timed this down to the second)
The poor wonderful people who died in this accident have my heart and soul. Same with all aircraft disasters worldwide, as they could not control their own destiny. SO tragic and sad on all levels.
Imagine the horror of the flight tower crews, watching that plane take off with one of its engines on fire and absolutely nothing they can do will save those lost souls onboard.
Comrade Vodka that s not math..math is calculating how many types of boeing that flies at the moment and then devide the accident numbers..concord had only 4 aircrafts..1 crashed..so that means is it a bit bad..it was speedy..but very expensive...and i personally think the airbus is the best..
Eric Dorobantu there were 14 Concordes. It's only crash was caused because of another planes failure. As well as a mechanic that did not want to do his job.
It wasn't a waste of money at all. Not only did it assist aircraft development but from a brand point of view it was a flagship (and great advertising) for Air France and BOAC (later BA).
I Live in Edinburgh and shortly before it's retiral there was a flight over central Edinburgh. I didn't know about it and was walking along and heard this huge noise and here's Concorde banking overhead. It was a great sight!
I think they mean to get the airspeed fast enough to cool the wing and extinguish the fire. I'm presuming the flight deck was doing all it could to cut off the fuel supply to the engine so as to remove fuel supply to the fire.
while flying faster may supply more oxygen, the speed at which the oxygen is travelling past the plane is high enough that the fire cannot use all of it and the forces are both smothering and cooling the fire at the same time
ITS NOT CONCORDES FAULT its either the airports fault for not checking the run way or it was the other plane in front dropped a metal peice and concordes tire ran over it and then the metal peice went for the fuel tank. i saw this ina documetry they found a peice that was not from concorde and they think that was the cause of it catching fire
I see a lot of comments on DC10 issues. Having flown a lot over 45 years and all kinds of planes I can tell you there is litter on runways often. One of the Concorde's issues was it had to be a lot lighter and thus not as able to take a hit from objects. One of its fears was birds and hail would have taken it down. Air plane safety is based on the total hours flown by a model and crashes with and without deaths to see what its real record is in the real world as flown. Safest is the DC3 with some still flying and have been for over 80 years.
Safest is the DC3? Wikipedia is listing over 200 incidents with this plane (16.000 have been built). that's one per 80 planes. The A380 has no fatalities up to date, but will still be in service for several years (251 have been built). The A340 will retire within the next 3 to 5 years, with just a little luck, this might become the first plane that will have had a full career in the skies without any fatalities (380 have been built).
@@TheColinChapman yeah, not sure what that person is on about with the DC-3 being the safest. Research I did, it’s had 419 accidents with 2,707 fatalities. That’s far from being the safest even if it’s as old as it is. A honorable mention is the ERJ-145. Now it’s had a handful of accidents; a couple pilot error but majority skidding of runway due to terrible weather/slick runways, but none ever caused fatalities. If you don’t count those towards the plane itself, it’s a really safe aircraft
@GlobalTossPot you have to look over how many flights all these accidents happened though I mean a hypothetical plane with 10 crashes only would be real safe by the metric you provided here.. even if said plane only had 10 flights so far and that thus it crashed at every flight. And the DC-3 being such an old plane, the total number of flights has to be huge so 419 accidents may actually be a really low number statistically speaking
Man, it's truly sad. There was a small clip of actual footage from someone passing by in their car. it's on the Air Crash Investigation episode. Of course, there's also that chilling photo after they rotated off the ground
This music in the end is so insulting here's a scenario : Ron : Hey man , what happened why are you crying? Bill : Hey Ron...I lost my mother... Ron : *SMITHSONIAN OUTRO PLAYS , IT'S BRIGHTER OUT HERE*
When the plane was just 25 feet off the ground, Gilles Jardinaud, the flight engineer, shut down the ailing number two engine. Both French and British pilots say it was another disastrous mistake, which breached all set procedures. The engine itself was not on fire, and as the tank emptied and the fire burnt itself out, it would probably have recovered. The fixed drill for shutting down an engine requires the crew to wait until the flight is stable at 400 feet, and to do so then only on a set of commands from the captain.
It did make sense. Because debris in the runway are dangerous for jet engine. So the Concord can't operate on normal runway where debris are more likely. Running it on special air force runway are not economical. So they stopped the service
Imagine being on that plane looking forward to your trip and one minute you are relaxing and getting comfortable. The next minute the plane is about to crash and you only have moments before you are killed 😱😱😱
Inaccurate view of available seats : That day, Concorde was fully loaded (100 passengers). Inaccurate view of the plane angle and trajectory at the moment of crash : In reality it was about 110° banking left + had more vertical speed than horizontal speed.
They actually recovered from the left overbank which was caused by no.1 ingesting parts of the disintegrating left wing and failing this caused the asymmetric thrust from 3 and 4 to lift the right wing into the 100⁰+ left overbank forcing the pilots to reduce thrust on 3 and 4 or go in inverted but since they were only marginally flying to begin with they stalled and went in on a relatively flat trajectory - when the left wing began shedding parts the crash became inevitable
@@PabloGonzalez-hv3td sadly it was fatal... even if they tried to stop the plane instead of taking off after Vpoint it would have crashed after the track and burn with tons of fuel leaking everywhere... That was an impossible equation.
Concorde was retired three years after the crash due to expensive maintenance. By then, it would've been known that the Concorde was not at fault in this easily preventable accident.
Didn’t destroy its mystique at all. Debris on the runway brought it down. That’s on the airport management. The plane itself was awesome. I got to fly on it, and was amazed.
@@DaTrueBacon ummm, no. You’re running an airport. It is your responsibility to ensure the runways are clear of debris. It certainly is not the responsibility of the flight crew following the plane that spewed the debris, and the crew of the plane that spewed the debris can’t have known in that moment.
@@DaTrueBaconthe strip was only 1.1-.3 inches wide and 0.055 thick. On a runway it was virtually undetectable. Let’s not forget that this was the middle of the day.
I was flying from Greece to Sweden the day after. On our seats in the airplane there was newspapers that had the Concord-crash as the main news. My mate who is scared of flying did not really like to "read all about it".
There’s an interesting point made about another Concorde pilot regarding this crash and Air France if any other aviation enthusiasts would like to read it’s by the pilot John Hutchinson.
100% correct, in the 1980's, I purposely missed a flight because I discovered to my horror it was a D(eath) C(ertain) 10- such was it's horrible reputation even back then.
There was a lot more to the crash than just the debris on the runway(improper concorde maintenance, tons overweight, pilot errors, etc): www.askthepilot.com/untold-concorde-story/ The DC-10 started badly, but had a good record overall.
A lot of this is an oversimplification, watch John Hutchinson's Interview on the matter. Many mistakes and false assumptions were made that compounded to cause the disaster. Maybe later in the episode they clarify some things, but for starters, there was no engine fire, and the shutdown of the engine probably doomed the plane because it did not have the power to stay airborne from that moment.
Concorde should have had its own team of semi- superheroes that accompanied it on weekly and seasonal sitcom adventures. I never flew it, maybe it did.?
Just when you were feeling good about the fact that this plane wasn't a DC-9 or a DC-10, it somehow makes an appearance in a Concorde crash. For those of you who don't know, a piece of a DC-9 popped the tire and caused the rubber to cause a fire. The DC series had the chance to be a truly great aeroplane, but faulty maintenance ruined it's record. You have to recognize that the DC series was essentially a lower cost alternative to a Boeing, and that most airlines using the DC series were poor and were more likely to cut costs of repairs when possible. RIP the DC series.
bindlepig80 Like the Sins of Humankind which caused the death of Jesus Christ. Except that He Resurrected. The Concord will have to return as a different plane and program.
The Concorde was a marginally safe airplane. The airlines had to compensate through extensive maintenance and having only their best pilots operate them. I think it is the only plane that could be destroyed by running over a strip of sheet metal.
Perhaps someone could answer this question. Why did they ground Concord after this accident? The cause of this accident was not directly related to the airliner. The debris could have hit any commercial jet just right and caused this catastrophic event. Furthermore, many commercial airliners have crashed due to their own mechanical and/or pilot failures yet they are still in service.
The concorde wasnt cost effective, there are some videos on youtube explaining that. It would have stopped flying sooner or later even if that crash didnt happen, it just accelerated the decline.
Fault/smault. Irrelevant wordage. The DC-10 caused the disaster when a part fell off. I don't care if that was down to the mechanics who serviced the part. They either directly worked for the DC-10 operating airline or for a sub-contractor. Don't be so pedantic regarding "fault". It wasn't the fairies or magic moonbeams or a TGV that caused the crash; it was a DC-10.
As sad as this was if I'm not mistaken I believe debris from a fight that landed before this aircraft took off ruptured the fuel tank. It was another plane that caused this accident not Concorde. Loads of planes are still flying after multiple accidents. What makes this any different to any other aircraft that crashes but still flys? Rest in peace to all those that perished.
Concorde was already on its way out due to expensive maintenance, higher crew costs (Concorde required 3 pilots while other planes only needed 2), and restrictions that forced it to fly slower than the speed of sound (which was the whole point of Concorde). Then we have this crash that grounded the entire Concorde fleet, then 9/11 happens a year later which screwed up the entire airline industry.
The concorde was unbelievably expensive to fly and required a lot of fuel and not luxurious at all. The plane had frequent problems with tires bursting and flinging pieces up into the Wings where the fuel was contained
*Air France Flight 4590 was heading to New York JFK Airport from Paris Airport, at 3:20PM Air France 4590 requests takeoff from runway 26R, the Concorde engines goes on fire. Because, a Continental DC-10 was heading to Newark that took off from the same runway a piece from the fuselage ripped off on takeoff, soon as Air France 4590 known as AF4590 took off from Runway 26R, then at 3:26PM the plane engines on the Concorde exploded, the flight crashed at a hotel near the airport. Thanks for reading this!*
I just watch the documentary on the crash. Didn't know the metal scrap had come off a DC10.. and thought the very came. The DC10, when not in trouble, is causing trouble...
Concorde : goes super fast . Atc controller :nice ! Literally 30 seconds later : plane is on fire : atc : oh god 2 minutes later, crashes into hotel: atc : cries and crawls under the desk
the thing that gets me, is how they were able to have such great footage of the air tower people AND the people in the Concorde; including the pilots and passengers. It's almost like they knew something was going to happen.
Expensive, cramped and unpleasant. But the Formula 1 car of the skies. London to NY in under 3 hours. But plagued with faults and malfunctions for more than 2 decades. And this accident was one of the things that also sealed the deal that Concorde, as a business, was finished. 9000 dollars per ticket and at that time... Guess what you would have to pay today for a 3h ticket. No matter what airplane you can construct, that is capable of that speed or beyond, that is insane prices. Even the Soviet Russians knew it with their Tupolev Tu-144. Both a marvel and a curse of the Atomic Space Age. For both sides. Thank you for sharing and rip to the victims of what once was. Thank you.
2:58 "Something is happening".
They must pay him a lot of money to provide such an expert analysis.
C'est un ancien pilote de concorde jamais l'émission à payer Jean-Louis châtelain pour dire ce qu'il a dit
@@ronche8783 Oh ho ho! Comme ça tu parles Français comme moi?
@@Arkensius1157 bas oui pourquoi ?
Yeah lmaooo
😂😂😂😂😂😂
"I was thinking until the very last moment that something would save the situation". What a very human thing to say. That experience of watching the unbelievable actually happen before your very eyes and in real time. If you've felt it then you know exactly what he means.
"i then woke up and it was all a dream"
I remember when it happened and the first thing I said is that is not going to end well regardless of whatever measures the cockpit crew does, with the fuel and the flame, it would be just a matter of time before it crashes or explodes, or in this case both.
This is exactly why I will never be a pilot
Concord be like: Professor Snape please Cut the engines off
thats something an alien would say
20 Years today...
A 20 year anniversery.
RIP to those who died
@@powerpointepicreviewer7329yep
Haha plane go boom
annoyed monkey ohhh you play fortnite that makes sense
annoyed monkey I would rather watch cuties than your “Spider-Man livestream.”
Airplane: crashes into hotel and completely obliterates hundreds of people
The video 5 secs later:🎵🎵🎵🎵😃
lol
"IT'S BRIGHTER HERE!"
It's brighter here
hahahahaha lol
The crash only killed four people on the ground
..And the plane crashed into the airport hotel,
Smithsonial channel It's brighter here
*_All hope in humanity is lost, a meteor the size of the island of Manhattan will hit earth, causing massive tsunamis worldwide, not to mention the dust which will block out the sun for decades, causing mass starvation and possessing another ice age, the greatest one in the history of our planet_*
Smithsonian: It's brighter here!
It is brighter here because of the flames...
Al Gore says it will be a golf ball sized comet that will destroy the Earth.
loddicc A golf ball sized comet is not enough to destroy the earth though
Al Gore thinks so.
1crash in a over 30 years of service!
I truly hope that the Concorde Heritage Group will return their Concorde back to the sky!
That will really make me smile!!
Wont happen As long as they want to make money
You are so right I hope that will happen soon
‘It’s brighter here!’
27 years
klum03 no
Who would win?
- A fleet of supersonic airliners with potential to change travel forever.
- One shiny boi.
- A dead meme
- One shiny *boi*.
Vive la France and UK
-It’s brighter here
*boi*
I feel bad for the passengers and crew, but especially the crew that did everything to try and get the plane under control and save everyone. RIP all 109 passengers and crew, and the 4 people in the hotel
Beautiful, yes....but unpopular in American cities where they landed, due to being much noisier than other airplanes.
the crew had themselved to blame as well - concorde was way too far aft loaded
@@samwisehuluberlu2210 BEA has history of being a corrupt organization - not just here, and the airport even paved over the runway right after, to hide the fact the MLG was skidding like a shopping cart wheel, during the take off roll.
@leeveraction they were probably smoothing the runway after any damage or fod
@@j700jam4 the runway was paved over before the investigation was complete - thanks BEA ! !
A lot of inaccurate things people are saying in the comments. Heres what really happened. A piece of the engine cowling fell of a continental airlines DC10 as it went down the runway. When Concord later took off it ran over the metal piece causing the tire to pop and chunks of tire struck exposed wiring in the landing gear and also punctured the wings fuel tank causing a leak. sparks from the exposed wiring ignited the fuel causing the fire and bringing the plane down.
@absoftitanium the chances of that were so low...
@@kai_b1156 I mean, the piece in question was improperly installed by a workshop not certified to work on the DC-10, but sure, it's totally the fault of the DC-10.
It is more complex than that. I am a 777 pilot and I know a couple of former BA concorde pilots, we all agree that the pilot was also in error. The plane probably could have landed at the other airport, but captain Marty rotated before V1 this is a known fact that came out during the investigation. The shut down an engine because they showed an engine fire but this was not actually the case but I would probably do the same if I get an engine fire indication, but not during my take off roll. I would shut it after take off at a couple of hundred feet. The aircraft was overweight and too slow to fly safely, in the opinion of many this was pilot error as someone else has said Concorde was prone to burst tires. There were other factors like the no2 engine having been worked on that day for a faulty thrust reverser the extra luggage being added just prior to takeoff. All these things add up to a number of errors happening all together. Sorry if this upsets anyone but it is only information that is in the report and the opinion of former Concorde pilots.
@Steve the Pirate Merde? do you mean nerd just learn to spell
Steve the Pirate but you spelt it right this time and plus how am I a nerd ?
Whenever I want to brighten my day, I turn to The Smithsonian Channel.
Lol
flynomo especially because "It's brighter here"
flynomo (then you see a plane crash happen) lol
Oh my god hahaha
Imagine seeing a star flying in front of you... then sees a BOOM...huh...I have no idea why am I here ;/
It's ironic how they grounded the Concorde instead of the. DC-10 which has crashed more times and caused this crash. That's why I call the DC-10 a death trap.
Edit: Since I'm still getting notifications 3 years later. I know this isn't the only reason it was grounded. It was meant to be a joke.
Death Contraption 10
DC 10
Not_A_Pro death chamber-10
it wasnt just because of the crash. Concord was way too expensive to operate and was losing a lot of money and no one could afford to fly it so BA and AF retired it
DC-10 was a great plane. The only problem was bad maintenance
Agreed, I love the DC-10, it handles incredibly well
The captain's last words were "Too late, no time."
"We do all as possible", "that's all..."
@@banger2998 There's multiple sources saying that those were his exact words :)
@@banger2998 multiple air crash documentaries.
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@@Lee247Jamaica your not funny
Imagine waking up in your hotel room after a good night's sleep, getting out of bed, opening up the curtains, and seeing this darting towards you in that few seconds....
Oh mother of mercy, is this the end if Rico?
I will say to myself
This is it baby
@@Pionel_pessi. You need to run faster than The Flash.
It was 4:30 in the afternoon. Even the most determined student would be up by then. Still an unspeakable tragedy. If it had happened in the morning tho...
The moment you realise this is the last minute of your life my face: 🥺🥺🥺
I will always remember watching the Concorde flying over head from the beach in Sandy Hook, NJ during the early ‘80’s. I have many photos. Tu me manques 😢💔
Concorde: Slams into hotel, killing many people
*happy smithsonian music*
😂😂😂
Thats not funny BITCH
Lmao
Only 5 people died when flight 4590 slammed into the hotel
“It’s brighter here”
I love the ending of this video:
“plane burns and crashes into a hotel”
Smithsonian: *music plays* “it’s brighter here!”
Horrible. They just payed $9000 to die.
Their kids were like "Woohoo"
@@geert574
Nope
At least the funeral should have been included...or not? Hopefully it was
@@geert574 That's a horrible thing to say. They'd never see their parents again, if not just one of them.
@suny123boy1 What if it wasn't a fault with the aircraft, such the case of Flight 4590?
Pilots: Nooooooo!!!
Air traffic controller: Oh mon dieu!
Smithsonian Channel: It’s brighter here
Rest in Peace Concorde, we will never forget you!
And R.I.P everyone onboard the plane
same
same
also the people that lost their lives
But mostly the Concorde
@@Exoblix yep
Yep
When you think it was not Concorde’s fault…such a beautiful aircraft, it will be forever remembered and loved ❤
In the early '80s while playing softball on Sunday mornings along Long Island's south shore, my fellow players and I frequently got to see this magnificent plane making its descent into Kennedy Airport. It reminded me of an enormous pterodactyl.
Of all of the places to crash it crashes into a hotel ?
Slightly Psychotic It lost the control and they were under 20 meters I think 15 but the plane went on the left side when it lost the control and fell down
pretty much.
but it was a 4-star place.....
tom murphy lmfao
Rythlar via the plane does not care where it lands
2:58 “Something is happening” I wonder what made him think that!
Today, it is now 20 years since Air France flight 4590 crashed in Paris.
This comment is posted at roughly the same time Concorde crashed that day.
(Yes, I timed this down to the second)
Nerd.
Oui c'est l'anniversaire du crash horrible qu'il repose en paix 🤦♀️
@@Rackhage
Not like I have anything better to do with my time trapped in my house.
@@SpencerBMW
So what?
@@Rackhage so?
plane: crashes
smithsonian: *Happy music* *I T S B R I G H T E R H E R E*
The poor wonderful people who died in this accident have my heart and soul. Same with all aircraft disasters worldwide, as they could not control their own destiny. SO tragic and sad on all levels.
They were more likely rich and awful, not poor and wonderful
@@worthlessgarbage4857 stay mad that rich people will always be more successful then you, no one deserves this type of death
@@worthlessgarbage4857 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Nazi's the passengers.
I know it's a figure of speech, but my little pet peeve: Destiny by definition is not controlled by anyone.
Concorde: *preparing to take off*
DC-10: I’m about to end this man’s whole career.
lol
@golden killer exactly. 109 of them. that's the point of the joke.
I'm tired of seeing these jokes on almost every video I watch.
The shear denseness in this reply section just made a fucking singularity appear in my room.
@@moduleapothem6446 a bf-109
3:31
So sad, RIP to the pilots and all the passengers.
Imagine the horror of the flight tower crews, watching that plane take off with one of its engines on fire and absolutely nothing they can do will save those lost souls onboard.
The aircraft was beautiful I'm very upset that it crashed
I know. You simply can't accept the fact that such a beautiful aircraft has fallen, all due to something that wasn't its fault.
@Sky Pilot < Chuckled, good one... you mean due to the DC (Death Chamber) ;)
concorde-1 crash-ITS SOOO DANGEROUS
DC-10-15 crashes-its ok
boeing-737-76 crashes-ITS THE BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST
Comrade Vodka Cause f logic
makes sense
well some of the crashes were pilot error. i've been a pilot long enough that i've flown the DC-10 & it handles REALLY well.
Comrade Vodka that s not math..math is calculating how many types of boeing that flies at the moment and then devide the accident numbers..concord had only 4 aircrafts..1 crashed..so that means is it a bit bad..it was speedy..but very expensive...and i personally think the airbus is the best..
Eric Dorobantu there were 14 Concordes. It's only crash was caused because of another planes failure. As well as a mechanic that did not want to do his job.
Glad I'm binge watching these during covid international flight ban
Beautiful plane, too bad ...
Mad Matthew 1280 fuck you
It wasn't a waste of money at all. Not only did it assist aircraft development but from a brand point of view it was a flagship (and great advertising) for Air France and BOAC (later BA).
Croz Raven I was it 2 days ago in a plane garage at the Heathrow airport
I Live in Edinburgh and shortly before it's retiral there was a flight over central Edinburgh. I didn't know about it and was walking along and heard this huge noise and here's Concorde banking overhead. It was a great sight!
Croz Raven I just wish it didn’t retire, besides, I was born 2 years after the Concorde retired.
They used the same cockpit in: *a320...a380....747....777....like what😂*
Lol the pilots are also same for some ,yeah sure they actors but how many times will the same guy die
Yeah, in their older seasons they actually used the proper cockpit and instruments.
i agree
Like My God pick one
No
I like how they got the shape of Concorde's control columns right even though the view of them is brief. Well done, Smithsonian Channel.
“The crew can’t outfly the fire that is quickly consuming the plane”
Excuse me how do you outfly a fire that is literally on your plane
If u for high enough or very fast enough and Concorde was the fastest plane
I think they mean to get the airspeed fast enough to cool the wing and extinguish the fire. I'm presuming the flight deck was doing all it could to cut off the fuel supply to the engine so as to remove fuel supply to the fire.
@Eoin flying faster will only supply more oxygen, what the narrator said was meant to tell there is no saving the plane, it wasnt meant literally
while flying faster may supply more oxygen, the speed at which the oxygen is travelling past the plane is high enough that the fire cannot use all of it and the forces are both smothering and cooling the fire at the same time
*"This conversation is so high IQ its making my head hurt"*
ITS NOT CONCORDES FAULT its either the airports fault for not checking the run way or it was the other plane in front dropped a metal peice and concordes tire ran over it and then the metal peice went for the fuel tank. i saw this ina documetry they found a peice that was not from concorde and they think that was the cause of it catching fire
T\/Gamer the metal strip on the runway was the engine mount for a DC10
If an airport checked the runway after every flight that took off or landed, the airport wouldn't make as much money.
Lol it wasn't the DC-10's fault because the part wasn't put on correctly by mechanics.
No because the part they replaced wasn't put on correctly
Well then it was the opertaing companies fault then.
So sad, very sad !
I feel a pinch of heart every time I pass by the accident site in Gonesse, for the passagers of course, and for the France.
At least it didn't had a double aircraft crash like Tupolev 144 did
I see a lot of comments on DC10 issues. Having flown a lot over 45 years and all kinds of planes I can tell you there is litter on runways often. One of the Concorde's issues was it had to be a lot lighter and thus not as able to take a hit from objects. One of its fears was birds and hail would have taken it down. Air plane safety is based on the total hours flown by a model and crashes with and without deaths to see what its real record is in the real world as flown. Safest is the DC3 with some still flying and have been for over 80 years.
Safest is the DC3? Wikipedia is listing over 200 incidents with this plane (16.000 have been built). that's one per 80 planes.
The A380 has no fatalities up to date, but will still be in service for several years (251 have been built).
The A340 will retire within the next 3 to 5 years, with just a little luck, this might become the first plane that will have had a full career in the skies without any fatalities (380 have been built).
@@TheColinChapman yeah, not sure what that person is on about with the DC-3 being the safest. Research I did, it’s had 419 accidents with 2,707 fatalities. That’s far from being the safest even if it’s as old as it is.
A honorable mention is the ERJ-145. Now it’s had a handful of accidents; a couple pilot error but majority skidding of runway due to terrible weather/slick runways, but none ever caused fatalities. If you don’t count those towards the plane itself, it’s a really safe aircraft
@GlobalTossPot you have to look over how many flights all these accidents happened though I mean a hypothetical plane with 10 crashes only would be real safe by the metric you provided here.. even if said plane only had 10 flights so far and that thus it crashed at every flight. And the DC-3 being such an old plane, the total number of flights has to be huge so 419 accidents may actually be a really low number statistically speaking
Man, it's truly sad. There was a small clip of actual footage from someone passing by in their car. it's on the Air Crash Investigation episode. Of course, there's also that chilling photo after they rotated off the ground
The music at the end is inappropriate
ur face is inappropriate
Shit it weeb
@@bluenation3838yoohoo ur profile pic is inappropirate
Its brighter here
No u
This music in the end is so insulting here's a scenario : Ron : Hey man , what happened why are you crying? Bill : Hey Ron...I lost my mother... Ron : *SMITHSONIAN OUTRO PLAYS , IT'S BRIGHTER OUT HERE*
😭😭 so it should be all somber and drab? Why?
Hey Ron
HeY bIlLy
hahaha yea :D
2:52 "The plane's airspeed is now dangerously low"
*speed increases*
Logic.
Lol
200 can be low depending on how fast they want it to go -_-
The counter goes up while the dial goes down. **_PHYSICS**_
@@Tonatsi ?
Smithsonian video: *talks about death*
Their outro: *happiness and joy sounds*
When the plane was just 25 feet off the ground, Gilles Jardinaud, the flight engineer, shut down the ailing number two engine. Both French and British pilots say it was another disastrous mistake, which breached all set procedures. The engine itself was not on fire, and as the tank emptied and the fire burnt itself out, it would probably have recovered. The fixed drill for shutting down an engine requires the crew to wait until the flight is stable at 400 feet, and to do so then only on a set of commands from the captain.
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@@sharonbraselton4302 Great comment.
the fire melted the elevons far before reaching Le Bourget. not shutting down engine no.2 would not have saved AF4590.
@@TheColinChapman most of the wing would of been melted too no way would they of made it
there was literally 1.2 tonnes of fuel in the tank that was burning out, there was little to nothing the pilot crew could do.
A shame that such an iconic airplanes reputation was destroyed by someone else's plane falling apart
That was not the pilot fault
A fucking American plane
It did make sense. Because debris in the runway are dangerous for jet engine. So the Concord can't operate on normal runway where debris are more likely. Running it on special air force runway are not economical. So they stopped the service
the dc10 just slapped the concorde in the face with debris
@@rogeryscankill962The curse of the DC-10 struck again...
Imagine being on that plane looking forward to your trip and one minute you are relaxing and getting comfortable. The next minute the plane is about to crash and you only have moments before you are killed 😱😱😱
Fast as the plane was...
20 years ago today. Rip to Sierra delta and her passengers.
It wasn't Sierra Delta but Sierra Charlie ;-)
Inaccurate view of available seats : That day, Concorde was fully loaded (100 passengers). Inaccurate view of the plane angle and trajectory at the moment of crash : In reality it was about 110° banking left + had more vertical speed than horizontal speed.
They actually recovered from the left overbank which was caused by no.1 ingesting parts of the disintegrating left wing and failing this caused the asymmetric thrust from 3 and 4 to lift the right wing into the 100⁰+ left overbank forcing the pilots to reduce thrust on 3 and 4 or go in inverted but since they were only marginally flying to begin with they stalled and went in on a relatively flat trajectory - when the left wing began shedding parts the crash became inevitable
I didn’t know it was inverted. Rather I thought the captain put it 10 degrees nose up.
@@PabloGonzalez-hv3td sadly it was fatal... even if they tried to stop the plane instead of taking off after Vpoint it would have crashed after the track and burn with tons of fuel leaking everywhere... That was an impossible equation.
the curse of the DC 10 stiles again. .dc= deadly crash
DC-10 - Death Contraption 10
You dumbasses it wasn't the DC-10's fault because the part wasn't put on correctly by mechanics
ESweden by Emerald MC you've said this on all comentsy
Nestor Marte DC= Death Cruiser
The DC-10's are the aircraft versions of...of...
Damn, I've got no idea on what animal for that
Concorde: We will be the best and fastest commercial aircraft in the future!
DC-10: I'm about to end this man's whole career.
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remember being at work when this happened...such a sad shock....thoughts and prayers for all. xx
A single crash ends the line of the Concorde.
Weird.
Concorde was retired three years after the crash due to expensive maintenance. By then, it would've been known that the Concorde was not at fault in this easily preventable accident.
Benjamin Taylor exactly
So realistically speaking, the DC-10 destroyed its mystique. It's sad, isn't it?
@@ben.taylor Improper concorde maintenance, overweight concorde, and pilot errors also contributed to the crash.
Thats not the only reason they stop producing the plane!
The DC-10 Is a stone cold killer
I didn't know that
The reason is dc-10 😅
But i know today from mentor pilot yt Chanel
Didn’t destroy its mystique at all. Debris on the runway brought it down. That’s on the airport management. The plane itself was awesome. I got to fly on it, and was amazed.
late reply but it isn't really the airport's fault. The debris fell from a dc10 that took off right before the concorde
@@DaTrueBacon ummm, no. You’re running an airport. It is your responsibility to ensure the runways are clear of debris. It certainly is not the responsibility of the flight crew following the plane that spewed the debris, and the crew of the plane that spewed the debris can’t have known in that moment.
@@Gk2003m I don't know much about the airport and runway stuff so if I'm wrong then im wrong
@@Gk2003m You can't have shit falling off planes anyway. The dc10 was unreliable af and this titanium piece wasn't even certified.
@@DaTrueBaconthe strip was only 1.1-.3 inches wide and 0.055 thick. On a runway it was virtually undetectable. Let’s not forget that this was the middle of the day.
I was flying from Greece to Sweden the day after. On our seats in the airplane there was newspapers that had the Concord-crash as the main news. My mate who is scared of flying did not really like to "read all about it".
Imagine if you were in that hotel on the balcony chilling and seeing a plane coming towards you😳
You wouldn’t be flushed you would be dead
It wouldn't have been for very long. I guess that's a good thing. They went quick.
RIP
It's been 20 years since this happend 🥺❤️
RIP Concorde 🙏🏻
There’s an interesting point made about another Concorde pilot regarding this crash and Air France if any other aviation enthusiasts would like to read it’s by the pilot John Hutchinson.
Yeah, it was in History Channel's documentary on the plane.
DC-10, worst plane to ever take flight. Not only has it taken the lives of those on board, it has also taken the lives of those on other aircrafts
well blame the company for not taking care of the DC-10
100% correct, in the 1980's, I purposely missed a flight because I discovered to my horror it was a D(eath) C(ertain) 10- such was it's horrible reputation even back then.
@@jasonph2522 Death Chamber 10. That's the DC-10 for you. For all of us. Terrible plane.
it's called the Death Cruiser for a reason.
There was a lot more to the crash than just the debris on the runway(improper concorde maintenance, tons overweight, pilot errors, etc):
www.askthepilot.com/untold-concorde-story/
The DC-10 started badly, but had a good record overall.
A lot of this is an oversimplification, watch John Hutchinson's Interview on the matter. Many mistakes and false assumptions were made that compounded to cause the disaster. Maybe later in the episode they clarify some things, but for starters, there was no engine fire, and the shutdown of the engine probably doomed the plane because it did not have the power to stay airborne from that moment.
Smithsonian Channel: Its Brighter And Happyer Here
Me: **watches this** yeah it deffinatly is brighter. but not so happy
Concorde should have had its own team of semi- superheroes that accompanied it on weekly and seasonal sitcom adventures. I never flew it, maybe it did.?
Christian Marty was also a French ex-athlete who took part in the Olympics before joining his flight career with Air France!!
The way he said that “engine fire procedure” I felt that
Just when you were feeling good about the fact that this plane wasn't a DC-9 or a DC-10, it somehow makes an appearance in a Concorde crash. For those of you who don't know, a piece of a DC-9 popped the tire and caused the rubber to cause a fire. The DC series had the chance to be a truly great aeroplane, but faulty maintenance ruined it's record. You have to recognize that the DC series was essentially a lower cost alternative to a Boeing, and that most airlines using the DC series were poor and were more likely to cut costs of repairs when possible. RIP the DC series.
Refutation Guy you mean DC-10 not DC-9
bindlepig80 Like the Sins of Humankind which caused the death of Jesus Christ. Except that He Resurrected. The Concord will have to return as a different plane and program.
Refutation Guy Funny how the Dc 10 did not crash, but still ends up crashing the other
Yeah, it was neither the Concorde's or the DC10's fault, it was the mechanics who put bad the part on.
The Concorde was a marginally safe airplane. The airlines had to compensate through extensive maintenance and having only their best pilots operate them. I think it is the only plane that could be destroyed by running over a strip of sheet metal.
I like how everything was sad and then at the end there’s bright and happy music
*Plane crashes and a lot of people die* The channel: it’s brighter here
Perhaps someone could answer this question. Why did they ground Concord after this accident? The cause of this accident was not directly related to the airliner. The debris could have hit any commercial jet just right and caused this catastrophic event. Furthermore, many commercial airliners have crashed due to their own mechanical and/or pilot failures yet they are still in service.
The difference is the people that died. The concord tickets cost $10,000. Everyone on the jet was rich elites with really good lawyers.
The concorde wasnt cost effective, there are some videos on youtube explaining that. It would have stopped flying sooner or later even if that crash didnt happen, it just accelerated the decline.
What a beautiful aircraft. What a shame to see it end like that !! R.I.P.
Today is the 20th anniversary of the tragedy. R. I. P. CONCORDE. Come back pls!
Screw you, Continental Death Chamber 10. You made the Concorde fail.
Upvoted
You dumbasses it wasn't the DC-10's fault because the part wasn't put on correctly by mechanics
Fault/smault. Irrelevant wordage. The DC-10 caused the disaster when a part fell off. I don't care if that was down to the mechanics who serviced the part. They either directly worked for the DC-10 operating airline or for a sub-contractor.
Don't be so pedantic regarding "fault". It wasn't the fairies or magic moonbeams or a TGV that caused the crash; it was a DC-10.
rip concorde
It failed from being to expensive to operate dc-10 had little to nothing to do with it
3:06 me when I try not to laugh in class
0:36 Who was the guy with grey hair I thought he was the flight engineer gilles jardinaud but he died who is the guy with grey hair talking?
Traumatizing for anyone witnessed this with there own eyes. RIP to deceased
going off the runway is better because everybody might survive and it's easy to put the fire out
Airport hotel?
Seriously?
How ironic.....
As sad as this was if I'm not mistaken I believe debris from a fight that landed before this aircraft took off ruptured the fuel tank. It was another plane that caused this accident not Concorde. Loads of planes are still flying after multiple accidents. What makes this any different to any other aircraft that crashes but still flys?
Rest in peace to all those that perished.
Yes, it did!
Exactly 👍
Concorde was already on its way out due to expensive maintenance, higher crew costs (Concorde required 3 pilots while other planes only needed 2), and restrictions that forced it to fly slower than the speed of sound (which was the whole point of Concorde). Then we have this crash that grounded the entire Concorde fleet, then 9/11 happens a year later which screwed up the entire airline industry.
At last a sensible voice. Thank you. 👍
The concorde was unbelievably expensive to fly and required a lot of fuel and not luxurious at all. The plane had frequent problems with tires bursting and flinging pieces up into the Wings where the fuel was contained
*Air France Flight 4590 was heading to New York JFK Airport from Paris Airport, at 3:20PM Air France 4590 requests takeoff from runway 26R, the Concorde engines goes on fire. Because, a Continental DC-10 was heading to Newark that took off from the same runway a piece from the fuselage ripped off on takeoff, soon as Air France 4590 known as AF4590 took off from Runway 26R, then at 3:26PM the plane engines on the Concorde exploded, the flight crashed at a hotel near the airport. Thanks for reading this!*
Fact: The DC 10 is a troublemaker.
PS: Why Couldn't they just abort take off?
I just watch the documentary on the crash. Didn't know the metal scrap had come off a DC10.. and thought the very came. The DC10, when not in trouble, is causing trouble...
Facts don’t even have to be on the plane for it to be dangerous
Of course it was a DC-10.
Of course
(DC) Death Cruiser
Concorde : goes super fast .
Atc controller :nice !
Literally 30 seconds later : plane is on fire : atc : oh god
2 minutes later, crashes into hotel: atc : cries and crawls under the desk
I keep watching these and I feel like I don’t know enough about what’s going on and what happened.
*I Subbed because you make good content:)*
What a crazy thing imagine just being in a plane and seeing a fire out ur window
Concorde:crashes once
FAA:CONCORDE MUST GO
DC10:Crashes multiple times, and caused the accident
FAA:Well that's ok
It was more than just the crash. It was maintaining the aircraft, cost in fuel and it was limited where it vould fly. Renduring it obsolete.
Waaaaaayyyy too expensive to operate. Simple economics.
“Something is happening”
No shit the back of the planes on fire 😂
They couldn't see what was happening in the back of the plane. Also they were speeding down the runway and were about to takeoff.
Please always give us episode and season number so that we can watch it directly and I do not need to look at every episode to find
My father got to ride on one of these concords a year before they stopped!
"Its brighter here"
really bro?
the thing that gets me, is how they were able to have such great footage of the air tower people AND the people in the Concorde; including the pilots and passengers. It's almost like they knew something was going to happen.
It was an insider job. Jet fuel can't melt the airplane.
@@ashishkushwaha7045 just another Vietnam…..
Facts
ask these from boeing how and why the concord fell, they know very well
this is a reenactment
Expensive, cramped and unpleasant. But the Formula 1 car of the skies. London to NY in under 3 hours. But plagued with faults and malfunctions for more than 2 decades. And this accident was one of the things that also sealed the deal that Concorde, as a business, was finished. 9000 dollars per ticket and at that time... Guess what you would have to pay today for a 3h ticket. No matter what airplane you can construct, that is capable of that speed or beyond, that is insane prices. Even the Soviet Russians knew it with their Tupolev Tu-144.
Both a marvel and a curse of the Atomic Space Age. For both sides.
Thank you for sharing and rip to the victims of what once was.
Thank you.
2:58
Guy- “something is happening”
Me- “bruh”
"Somthing is happening" me:"well never"
0:28 that’s the guy from national treasure
1:49 I feel bad for him
:Concorde gets Destroyed and everyone dies :Smithsonian Chanel Its brighter Here
Smithsonian: its brighter here
Me: yeah right
Smithsonian: See that wreckage of a Concorde?
me: it is brighter here
Concorde has the best design among the all airplanes
It's probably much like the crash of the Hindenburg in 1937 destroying the Zeppelin's, Dirigible's mystique.
I remember watching this like if it was yesterday
1:44 Sounds like an macintosh startup noise?