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At 16:30 on July 25, 2000, at Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris, France, a “Concorde” supersonic passenger plane (registered number F-BTSC) belonging to Air France is preparing for takeoff. The aircraft will fly AF4590 from Charles de Gaulle International Airport to New York's Kennedy International Airport. The flight is a charter flight chartered by Peter Delman Cruise Line in Germany. There are 3 crew members, 6 crew members and 100 passengers on the plane.
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is flying AF4590 by Christian Marty, the co-pilot is Jean Markut, the flight engineer Giles Gatineau, is a senior air crew (Marty) The total flight time of the captain and co-pilot Markut on the "Concorde" aircraft combined exceeded 23,000 hours).
96 of the 100 passengers are from Germany, and 2 Danish passengers, 1 Austrian passenger and 1 American passenger (Concorde Paris-New York round-trip ticket fare is as high as 9,000 US dollars, so these passengers are properly "The rich" don't care about the ticket price at all).
"Air Catastrophe" screen: AF4590 flight ready to take off
Tower: "Call Air France 4590, do you want to take the W10 taxiway or the R taxiway?" (Voice dialogue content in "Air Catastrophe")
Markut : "I need the entire long runway." (As a supersonic passenger plane, the "Concorde" passenger plane requires a runway take-off distance higher than that of ordinary passenger planes)
tower: "Well, Air France 4590, please use the R taxiway."
Co-pilot: "Air France 4590 understands." After that, the three crew members in the cockpit looked at each other and smiled. The captain and the engineer expressed their appreciation for the co-pilot's teasing of the tower. Air France F-BTSC No.
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when AF4590 When the flight was taxiing along the R taxiway to runway 26R, the flight engineer in charge of monitoring the fuel gauges, Gatineau, reported to the captain: "800kg of fuel has been used." (The "Concorde" airliner's amazing fuel consumption It can be seen that this amount of fuel is enough for an ordinary family car with a car family to use for more than half a year)
Charles Rogers Airport South Tower Duty Controller Giles Rogerland: "Air France 4590, you can use runway 26R to take off."
Marty Captain: "Runway 26R, permission to take off, Air France 4590 received." According to the weather conditions at the time, the
crew selected take-off speeds of 150 knots (V1, about 278 km/h) and 198 knots (VR, about 367). Km/h), 220Section (V2, about 407 km/h).
At 16:40, the AF4590 flight began to roll on the 26R runway. Captain Marty said smugly: "Are you all ready? Let's go!" When the speed of
reached 278 kilometers per hour, the first officer Marcourt reported that he had reached the decision speed: "V1! "Z2z
When the plane was taxiing on the runway at a speed of 320 kilometers per hour, the people inside the plane obviously felt a "pop" accompanied by a violent vibration. The aircraft was tilted slightly to the left. The flight engineer Gatineau asked the captain to give up taking off, but because the aircraft had accelerated to 328 kilometers per hour, which exceeded the takeoff decision speed, the aircraft had already taxied 1,200 meters, leaving 2000 meters at the front of the runway. , It is impossible to stop safely. Therefore, flight AF4590 has no choice but to continue taking off. Witnesses around the airport took photos of flight AF4590 taking off with flames
16:43:15. Flight AF4590 took off from runway 26R at Charles de Gaulle Airport, but in Giles Rogerland’s telescope, the aircraft was a one In a frightening and unforgettable picture, the engine on the left was on fire, dragging out a long flame accompanied by thick smoke. He immediately pressed the red alarm button to notify the airport fire, ambulance and security departments to prepare. Then call the crew: "Call Air France 4590, your tail is on fire." The crew replied: "Received."
"Air Catastrophe" footage, AF4590 flight with fire on the left wing
4:43:22, the cockpit The engine fire alarm sounded, indicating that the No. 2 engine had failed, prompting the engine fire protection procedure.
4:43:25, Captain Marty ordered the Gatineau engineer to turn off engine 2 and start the fire extinguisher. At the same time, the co-pilot Marcourt warned the captain to pay attention to the airspeed. At this time, the airspeed of the aircraft was low and the plane was only 30 off the ground. Meters, the situation is getting more critical. The passengers in the cabin were already frightened. The screams were mixed with crying. The flight crew who strapped themselves to the flight attendant seat during takeoff were helpless (they were too late to cry, this kind of battle was beyond The scope of their usual training requirements). The crew finally decided to fly to Le Bourget Airport, not far from Charles de Gaulle Airport, to make an emergency landing and report to the tower. The air traffic controllers in the
tower were not idle at this time, and immediately proceeded to clear the airspace around Charles de Gaulle Airport and Le Bourget Airport to prepare the clearance environment for flight AF4590 for an emergency landing. And inform Le Bourget Airport to prepare for the emergency landing of flight AF4509.
However, flight AF4590 was destined to not fly to Le Bourget Airport. With the spread of the fire on the left side No. 2 engine, the fire extinguishing system did not work at all. The No. 1 engine was subsequently "ignited", and the left side wing was hot Fragments were constantly falling off the main body of the wing under the grill. At 16:44, the rudder control system pipeline was burned by the fire, causing the rudder to fail completely, and the aircraft tilted and turned to the left uncontrollably. The ground proximity siren of "PULL UP" sounded in the cockpit. This is the call of death.
"Oh, there is no time!" Marcourt co-pilot shouted desperately.
"No! No—" Captain Marty's shout became the last voice left by the AF4590 flight crew.
"Air Catastrophe" screen, the moment AF4590 crashed
16:45, Air France flight AF4590 F-BTSC "Concorde" passenger plane crashed into a small hotel in the town of Gonesse, less than 1 km near Charles de Gaulle Airport 105 seconds after takeoff 25 meters away. When the crash, the left wing landed first, and then the whole body was completely turned over and disintegrated and exploded violently. The resulting mushroom cloud rose nearly 100 meters high. None of the 9 crew members/crew members and 100 passengers on board were spared. The debris from the crash was brought with it. The flame crashed into a small hotel 25 meters away and killed 4 people in the hotel. The number of people killed in the crash rose to 113. The crash site of flight
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Charles Rogerland Airport Tower Air Attendant Giles Rogerland clearly witnessed the entire process of the AF4590 crash in the telescope and couldn't help but say "Oh my God", then fell on the ground with a shocked look and burst into tears. , He has nothing to do. The investigation report of the official organization after the incident concluded that: on the day of the crash, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 passenger plane (registration number N13067) was left on runway 36R from Charles de Gaulle International Airport to Newark International Airport in New Jersey, USA. CO55 flight) the long metal part that fell out of the first engine. When the AF4590 flight took off, the left main landing gear wheel ran over the part, causing the tire to burst, and the tire fragments were shot at the wing cylinder at high speed. , The shock wave caused the fuel tank cap to be compressed and deformed and stretched open, and a large amount of fuel leaked; another smaller tire fragment cut the cable line of the landing gear, causing sparks to ignite the leaked fuel and cause a fire. At the time of the fire, although the air traffic control staff at the airport found and notified the AF4590 crew in time, the aircraft had to take off because the plane had taxied to V1. The captain originally wanted to fly to Paris-Le Bourget Airport, 5 kilometers away, for an emergency landing. However, the No. 2 engine was shut down and the No. 1 engine caught fire, which burned the wing, causing the wing to melt, making the aircraft unable to climb and accelerate, and finally stalled and crashed.
The culprit responsible for the final crash of flight AF4590-Continental Airlines N13067 DC10 passenger plane
AF4590 several days after the crash, British Airways and Air France announced that they would ground all Concorde aircraft for further investigation and investigation. The passenger aircraft was modified to design stronger tires to withstand the high speed and high load of the aircraft. The fuel tank was wrapped with a Kevlar protective layer to prevent fuel leakage. The airport used a better system to monitor the runway and remove foreign objects.
(the upper part is the "caused" metal strip left by the N13067 DC-10 passenger plane, and the lower part is the tire wreckage of the F-BTSC Concorde airliner. The marks of the sharp weapon are clearly visible)
but it is on the Concorde airliner Before preparing for a return flight in 2001, the United States had a terrorist attack on September 11, which caused a significant drop in the passenger capacity of the Concorde. In addition, the Concorde has been in service for more than 30 years, and the fleet is aging and extremely expensive. The huge loss caused by the fuel consumption caused the "Concorde" airliner to fail. On November 26, 2003, after the last flight of a "Concorde" airliner with the registration number F-BVFC, this epoch-making supersonic airliner withdrew from the air transport market.
After determining the "culprit", at 13:30 on February 2, 2010 (local time in France), that is, nine and a half years after the crash of flight AF4590, the flight AF4590 Gonesse crash occurred in Ponto, a northwestern suburb of Paris The court of Oise misdemeanor opened, and Continental Airlines and five other people were charged by the prosecutor with responsibility for the Gonesse air crash. More than 150 journalists and 50 technicians participated in the observations. The court debates were in French, German and English. There were 90 volumes of investigation files and 534 pieces of evidence. Only part of the families of the victims will attend, because most of them have already accepted Air France’s compensation and will not participate in the joint prosecution.
The defendants in this case include: Continental Airlines; Continental Airlines mechanic John Taylor who installed the metal strip that caused the accident on the N13067 DC10 passenger plane; Continental Airlines maintenance staff Stanley Ford; Concorde Aircraft Manufacturing Company's former engineer supervisor Jacques Elubel; former head of the European Aerospace Group Concord Division Henri Perrier and former senior director of the French Civil Aviation Administration Claude Frantzan. If the charges are convicted, their maximum sentence can be up to 5 years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros.
After more than two and a half years of trial procedures (first instance and retrial), the French Court of Appeal of Versailles made a final judgment on November 29, 2012: Continental Airlines and the other five defendants were not liable in the 2000 Concorde plane crash Criminal liability, but still need to pay 1 million euros in civil compensation to Air France. The
AF4590 flight Gonesse crash was included in the Canadian major disaster documentary "Air Catastrophe" in the seventh episode of the fourteenth season, "Dream of Broken Sound."
"Concorde" supersonic passenger aircraft performance data:
Crew: 4 crew + 219 crew (maximum)
length: 62.1 meters
wingspan: 25.56 meters
height: 11.4 meters
empty weight: 78700 kg
maximum take-off weight : 186000 kg
maximum commercial load: 12700 kg
engine: four Olympus 593 Mk610 turbojet engines, a single thrust of 187 kN.
Economic cruising speed: M2.04 Mach (1224 kilometers) per hour
practical service ceiling: 11818 meters
maximum range: 6580 kilometers
load range: 5110 kilometers
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