How the Crash of Flight 4590 Destroyed Concorde's Mystique
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- The Concorde was once the peak of cutting-edge aircraft design and a status symbol for the world's elite travelers. But the horrific 2000 crash of flight 4590 marked a turning point for this iconic aviation brand.
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From: AIR DISASTERS: Concorde - Up in Flames
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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
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 ?
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.
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
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
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.
Who is here after 1st January 2024
Me
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Yo
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Christian Marty was also a French ex-athlete who took part in the Olympics before joining his flight career with Air France!!
:Concorde gets Destroyed and everyone dies :Smithsonian Chanel Its brighter Here
My dad was a body guard for Henry Kissinger and he flew in this
Shoot, that must suck. Did he survive?
Sincere condolences
thats so cool to be able to say
Your dad flew in a Concorde or the 4590? If the latter, I'm sorry to hear
Cool
Now.....
“Speed is dangerously low” *goes 200 knots*
that is low for such a plane
Real Steinmayer ... um no that is actually over speed
i bought some jams • 98 years ago Uhm no, take off speed was about 210 knots for Concorde, so it’s way to low to maintain a stable climb.
Baconcorde for normal *non supersonic planes* that is a very high speed
ᅣ ᅲᅢᅧ홋 내구 ᅥ믇ᄂ • 98 years ago Yeah but the Concorde was a supersonic
plane
After watching 3 of these i am scared to go on a plane again..
I D D - Get back on your motorcycle.
• nophaa • That’s pretty sad since if they made these for car accidents no one would ever drive a car again..
You are more likely to die from a lightning strike. Cant live ur life like that
"At first I didn't believe it, Concorde was too magical to crash, I know it sounds childish but it was just Too magical"
Happy music, "It's brighter here!" Yeah, explosions do make things brighter literally. Not my mood now, though
Fun fact: There are only 2 super sonic jet models. Tu 144 and Concorde, both ever crashed in Paris only 6 miles apart.
Your comparison just doesn't make sense. There were 26 years between the two to begin with.
julosx yes I know, but the loaction
Thats right
@@julosx A Mile is not a unit of time
RIP Concorde :(
💔💔💔💔💔💔
The crash was caused by a Dead Chamber 10 (or DC-10.)
There’s an interesting write up about other circumstances regarding Air France cover up etc
Narrator: The plane's airspeed is dropping low...
Airspeed: 200-201 knots
Me: Concordes stall at 120 knots... 🤔 200 knots is normal speed.
120kts is not maneuvering speed when you're fully loaded with fuel and at max takeoff weight
But they were showing that the plane was at 200 knots, it is easy to manuvere at such a high speed
@@koc988 Although I do agree
Flight control had been damaged by fire. Both engines on port side down due to combination of debris and hot gases. Also delta wings design require very high speed to properly work. And finally, they couldn't retracted gears and nose so no aerodynamic
2:57 you dont say...
Something is happening
This was because of a DC-10 which took off 5 minutes ago and left on bit of metal piece and the Concorde just went on it which blows one tire of the 4 that causes such a big disaster....
No, AF made numerous mistakes. It needn’t have been a disaster.
ik that too
@@peteconrad2077 no,its thats what happened
@@rgt9998 it happened, and then became a disaster because of AF incompetence.
@@peteconrad2077 More like continental's incompetence
The plane has a war plane engines that is twice the speed of sound, and most accidents are either because of the wheels of the plane or parts of another plane on the runway.
A DC-10 Was Takingoff Before The Concorde And The DC-10 Droped a Metal Something i Forgot The Name
And It Flew In The Engine Of The Concorde And it Crashed
Not really the tyre had ran over it and caused a fuel leak and causing the engine to explode
Concorde: *most famous*
Dc-10: *Angry*
Dc-10: *places death trap on runway*
Concorde: *dead*
737: well apparently mostly we are dangerous because of *Engine problems* , *cracks* and other stuff
Other planes: crashes many times and still not grounded
Concorde, Boeing 737 max 8 and others: All grounded after few crashes
Although it should be stated that with the exception of the Concorde, the planes being grounded are a result of such a wide spread design flaw or faulty maintenance procedure, that the widely used models have a high chance of crashing for the same reason.
The plane was not ‘engulfed in flames’. This situation was dramatic enough without the addition of fictional details
"some of them didn't even know how much they were paying for it" - how does that work exactly?
The plane was chartered by a German Tour Company and had 96 on board headed for a 16 day party on a luxury cruise ship in New York so I doubt some of the passengers paid for it out of pocket at all
If one has to ask, you can't afford it.
RIP :c I wanted to fly the concorde*crys*
1:42 You can actually see the metal strip if you look closely.
Those windows look bigger than usual.....
This video provides a rather different account than the one provided in the BBC video...
I had seen this on national geographic channel years ago in a show where they showed worlds horrible plane crash. This jet caught on fire as the plane which had took off before this jet had an metal piece of its body fallen on runway which came between the jet’s landing gear and it hit on the plans engine/fuel part due to which it caught on flame so badly.
True. This cleared the Air France maintenance team of the charges
RCH C but the accident was overwhelmingly Air France’s fault.
Errr... I didn't know that they had video of the pilots and travellers on the Concorde that crashed......
This crash feels similar
That one el al cargo 747 who crashed in dutch apartment:can I be here
The fact this plane crashed because of another plane's fault (a DC 10's faulty part flew towards this plane 🙄) is just maddening tbh
From one disastrous decision to another, this French pilot didn’t give a damn about the lives that he was risking just to impress the people who were chartering this aircraft. some people saving 20 years to be able to meet their deaths.
this was a dangerous aircraft with its Delta wing meant that it had to achieve around 400 km/h. before they could rotate. With all the weight on board and most of it on the back tyres,. reaching 400 km an hour no wonder there were blowouts. These weren’t your ordinary blowouts. These were literally the entire stripping of the wheel, Throwing countless heavy pieces of rubber into the undercarriage system, the underneath of the wings and consequently fuel tanks. I’m truly surprised this disaster didn’t happen sooner
I thought it was the super expensive maintenance that caused it to retire, not the accident.
I mean Boeing had many more crashes/accidents that this and they're still running.
RIP to all. Shame the US didn't at least get an SST prototype from Boeing or Lockheed. I remember that time, it was exciting.
I swear whoever disliked this video doesn’t know how much this hurt everyone in the plane and their family’s...
3:39
I love how he said "Mon dieu" 😂😂😂
R.I.P.
#Humor
#Honate
23 years ago 😢😢😢
What a horrible way to go. I feel bad for all those aboard. You just never know when you’re going to be on the more that goes down. You have no control.
..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.
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.”
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
😂😂😂😂😂😂
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.
..
@@Lee247Jamaica your not funny
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?
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”
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*
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 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"*
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
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 ;/
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 ! !
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: 🥺🥺🥺
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.
"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
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
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
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
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*
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...
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.
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
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
Pilots: Nooooooo!!!
Air traffic controller: Oh mon dieu!
Smithsonian Channel: It’s brighter here
2:58 “Something is happening” I wonder what made him think that!
I love the ending of this video:
“plane burns and crashes into a hotel”
Smithsonian: *music plays* “it’s brighter here!”
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.
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
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?
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.
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 😢💔
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
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
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
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.
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 ?
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...
this is not a concorde cockpit 0:01
It is just the nose was 12.5 degrees
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.
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
They've put 4950 in the title when it is actually 4590.
Ant Craft they haven't
In the title.
Ant Craft they haven't
When this was released, that's what it said and they can change the title.
shit
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.
Lucky the filming crew survived
@just me its a documentary.. 🤦♀️
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.
going off the runway is better because everybody might survive and it's easy to put the fire out
When you think it was not Concorde’s fault…such a beautiful aircraft, it will be forever remembered and loved ❤
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.
When I was a kid in the 70s, there were two things that really stood alone as having a certain mystique and a super cool factor; the Twin Towers and the Concorde. It really sucks, to be blunt, that they are gone and that so many went down with them.
That’s just sad.
The space shuttle too. It’ll always have a place in my heart, along with the 747.
@@sian2337 Yes, I think the Airbus a380 looks very overweight and bulky compared the 747. It truly has beautiful lines.
Challenger hit me hard in '86. I miss that program. When they were strapped to the 747, that really was a sight to behold!
@@lukehelpmetakethisdangmaskoff - yeah I remember watching on the news the last shuttle being carried on the back of the 747, I found it quite emotional. I was actually on holiday in Florida when the first launch happened after the Challenger disaster… we were in the car and we could see it going up, all the traffic stopped and people got out of their cars to cheer and clap, it was a special thing to witness and it’s one of my favourite memories.
@@sian2337 awesome!
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.
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So sad, RIP to the pilots and all the passengers.
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.
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
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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Airport hotel?
Seriously?
How ironic.....
"Its brighter here"
really bro?
Why are the pilots smiling while the plane is crashing?