Continental Airlines and mechanic guilty,

[XabbaRus]

Basically the French absolved themselves of blame completely.

There was eyewitness accounts of the plane being on fire before if rotated, there was proof the that the main bogie on the concorde was faulty and shimmying before hand.

the continental guy might have ignored procedure but he is not completely to blame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord...ative_theories

[gimpy117]

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

Basically the French absolved themselves of blame completely.

There was eyewitness accounts of the plane being on fire before if rotated, there was proof the that the main bogie on the concorde was faulty and shimmying before hand.

the continental guy might have ignored procedure but he is not completely to blame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord...ative_theories

you are exactly right. rarely does only one thing cause an accident. But the thing is, FOD is a big problem, but it could have been anything that could have caused it at any time.

[Oberon]

Hardly surprising, the French were very wary of blaming any French company for this.

An interesting spot of trivia for you all.

The Concorde which crashed was the same Concorde which was used in the filming for the film "The Concorde...Airport '79"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Con..._Airport_%2779