RE: The Concorde disaster
When I lived in the UK a club member was on the crash investiagtion team and he eventually gave a presentation (edited at the time) on their findings. I don't remember the details but it was a series of events that led to the plane crashing and if even one of those early events had not happened the Concorde would not have crashed. Pointing to pilot error of a piece of metal on the runway is too simplistic.