No one is diminishing the loss of life, the efforts of the pilot to save the airplane and its passengers/crew, nor his effort to avoid crashing into a populated area on the ground and causing more loss of life. The post simply restates the results of the extremely thorough investigation that revealed a much more complicated chain of events leading to the loss of the aircraft than simply a fire caused by Foreign Object Damage (FOD) on the runway, in this case from an American DC-10. The Concorde was out of gross weight limits, took off in a tailwind, had improper maintenance on the landing gear and was swerving toward a 747, which was off the runway and the flight engineer improperly shut down an engine. The FOD on the runway was not the primary causal factor of the mishap and the courts have agreed. No malice intended with the original post or any posts since.
Regards,
Gus