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Concorde Crash Case Study
This case study will go through the famous Concorde F-BTSC (operated by Air France) accident on Tuesday 25th July 2000 at around 14 h 50 min UTC. This case will go through the BEA’s technical investigation report [1] on the accident. The flight tookoff from Paris Charles de Gaulle at 14:42, followed by a flame breakout and non-retracting landing gear leading into a crash onto a hotel at “La patte d’Oie” in Gonesse. The accident accounted for death of all the passengers and crew of the aircraft.
Figure 1: Air France Concorde F-BTSC crash 2000 [2].
The details of the flight and aircraft is provided in the following section:
Aircraft Information:
1. General Information:
a. Manufactured by EADS/BAE Systems
b. Concorde Type 1 – version 101
c. Serial No.: 3
d. Registration: F-BTSC
e. Airworthiness certified on 23 Dec. 975, valid until 29 Sept. 2002.
f. Flying hour up to 25 July 2000: 11989 hours and 4873 cycles.
2. Weight and Balance:
a. 122 total baggage items with average weight of 20.7 kg.
b. The maximum structural weight on takeoff being 186251. Aircraft was overloaded considering the calculation performed based on various hypothesis.
Table 1: Takeoff weight for the particular flight [1].
    Real or Noted Weight
    Forecast weight (Kg)
    Taxi weight (Kg)
    Takeoff weight (Kg)
    Corrected basic...