Would have the Concorde Plane still have been decommissioned, retired, if the Air France Crash of 2000?

Question

had not happened? if that Air France Concorde Crash had not happened, would Concorde still be flying or not? because many people say the Air France Concorde Crash that happened in 2000 marked the beginning of the end of the Concorde

Answer 1

The first two answers pretty well nailed it, it all came down to COST. Very expensive to operate, and carried relatively few passengers over medium length routes at a horrendous cost per seat-mile. With the sonic boom problem, it could only operate on over water routes.

Answer 2

Perhaps it has gone quiet because people have become bored of it or the media figures they don't have anything new for the Air France plane crash. Also there doesn't appear to be a "period of plane crashes". Plane just crash whenever. It hasn't become more frequent but it actually has become less frequent over the years. Why do planes still crash? How come we haven't invented cold fusion? Why can't we build guns that never run out of ammo? Because simply put, we humans may be smart, but we're neither perfect or gods. We make mistakes and things do happen. I've watched many air crash investigation reports and they seem to know what they're talking about. They usually draw their information from the official NTSB report so they are quite accurate. However, the media gets all confused most of the time and makes conflicting reports. I usually just compare all media sources to find a consensus and when the official report comes out I trust that is the most accurate source out there above the media.

Answer 3

The Concorde accident was for little in the demise of that airplane -

Concorde maintenance, the fuel costs were the main reasons -

It was an instrument of prestige, and an economic disaster -

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Answer 4

the concorde was too expensive to mantain, and they werent getting any profits from it. The crash was the last straw, so they stopped service not too long afterwards.

Answer 5

they were looking for an excuse to pull the plug. they got it.



concorde was an old design that did not meet modern standards in many areas. it was a maintenance pig, and airbus (bac and aerospatiale were founding members of the airbus consortium) no longer supported it.

Answer 6

Yes. It wasn't making any money and the planes were nearing the end of their useful lives.