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I'm really surprised to discover this discussion on an american forum by american forumers. Here in France we cannot ear a word of that story ! There's a problem somewhere...

What is pertubating me is that the sort of information the article claim is the first and basical information that an inspector from BEA or NTSB will ask ! They can't have gone through that ! These are the first parameters that are checked from the blackboxes ! Weight and balance, speed, altitude, engine parameters, meteo ! Inspectors have well noticed that there was a missing part on the gear and have done their job with that, maybe not to the end ? This is not NCIS here !

For the AF447, final report say that ice was a starting point but not the cause of the crash. The cause of the crash is the very bad responses of the crew to the alarms, and after that a complete lost of control because they never understand what was going on. A point of conclusion is maybe the alarm design is not the good one and don't help pilots decisions. Here in France it's a great polemic because pilots syndicates can't ear that pilts don't know to fly a plane ! But it was written in the report.

I can't see here where should be the higher economic or politic interest to create such a story for Concorde if it was (nearly) simply a reason of overweight + CoG + bad maintenance ? Fear to put Air France in bankruptcy ? Maybe I'm naive. Lets see history response...