Concorde AF4590 Crash Reports
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Concorde AF4590 Crash 1
CONCORDE AF4590 CRASH REPORTS
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CONCORDE AF4590 CRASH REPORTS
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Professor (Tutor)
The Name of the School (University)
The City and State where it is located
The Date
Concorde AF4590 Crash 2
Concorde AF4590 Crash Reports
According to John Hutchinson, any aircraft related accident or tragedy is normally
attributed to a series of systematic errors; and the same can be said for Air France Flight
Concorde AF4590. The aircraft had been undergoing maintenance for the past 2 to 3 days and
the reassembly of the left-hand undercarriage was not properly conducted. The missing
component that was overlooked during the reassembly is referred to as a spacer(John Hutchinson
on Air France Flight 4590, 2017). Failure to put the spacer in its purpose position meant that the
wheels on the left-hand undercarriage where not appropriately spaced and they were also not
held firmly in place. In addition, the pilot ordered that the fuel tanks be completely filled to
maximum capacity; without living any air space in all tanks. Company policy mandates that the
tanks should only be filled within 70% and 80%, and the remaining percentage should be allotted
to air. John also speculates that due to the fact that a significant proportion of the passengers
were going on a cruise; he may have been in a hurry to leave mainly because he had delayed the
flight by two hours after he ordered for repairs to be made on a problematic reverser (John
Hutchinson on Air France Flight 4590, 2017).
Hutchison also tells the interviewer that the pilot was warned by the dispatcher that they
were critically overweight and adding more cargo would severely detriment the plane's centre of
gravity. The pilot chose to ignore the warning and demanded that the remaining nineteen
passenger bags be put in the space available in the back storage space. In addition, the plane had
not used up a significant amount of the taxing fuel by the time the flight was ready to take off.
As such, the plane is estimated to have been overweight by 2 or 3 tonnes. Due to this reason the
pilot asked to use an extra section of the runway that had been closed off because resurfacing
was being done. Therefore, the transition point between the two sections of runway had a bump
Concorde AF4590 Crash Reports
According to John Hutchinson, any aircraft related accident or tragedy is normally
attributed to a series of systematic errors; and the same can be said for Air France Flight
Concorde AF4590. The aircraft had been undergoing maintenance for the past 2 to 3 days and
the reassembly of the left-hand undercarriage was not properly conducted. The missing
component that was overlooked during the reassembly is referred to as a spacer(John Hutchinson
on Air France Flight 4590, 2017). Failure to put the spacer in its purpose position meant that the
wheels on the left-hand undercarriage where not appropriately spaced and they were also not
held firmly in place. In addition, the pilot ordered that the fuel tanks be completely filled to
maximum capacity; without living any air space in all tanks. Company policy mandates that the
tanks should only be filled within 70% and 80%, and the remaining percentage should be allotted
to air. John also speculates that due to the fact that a significant proportion of the passengers
were going on a cruise; he may have been in a hurry to leave mainly because he had delayed the
flight by two hours after he ordered for repairs to be made on a problematic reverser (John
Hutchinson on Air France Flight 4590, 2017).
Hutchison also tells the interviewer that the pilot was warned by the dispatcher that they
were critically overweight and adding more cargo would severely detriment the plane's centre of
gravity. The pilot chose to ignore the warning and demanded that the remaining nineteen
passenger bags be put in the space available in the back storage space. In addition, the plane had
not used up a significant amount of the taxing fuel by the time the flight was ready to take off.
As such, the plane is estimated to have been overweight by 2 or 3 tonnes. Due to this reason the
pilot asked to use an extra section of the runway that had been closed off because resurfacing
was being done. Therefore, the transition point between the two sections of runway had a bump
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