The story of the Concorde’s history is not nearly as smooth as the flights it provided for thousands of passengers. Taking three decades to launch, the supersonic craft almost immediately ran into financial problems. Then when a crash killed all 100 passengers onboard, there was little sympathy to save a craft that was such a budget-buster. The Concorde died in 2003, but there may yet be new life for the “Son of Concorde,” with a new supersonic craft set to debut as early as 2012.
The supersonic jet plane known as the Concorde never made so loud a noise as it did on July 25, 2000. On that day, a Concorde which took off from Paris headed for New York crashed only moments after taking off. The Air France jet crashed into the Hotelissimo Hotel just two minutes after its take-off from the Charels de Gaulle Airport, all 100 on board perished in the crash.
Still today, people cite this as the reason that the Concorde was eventually retired as a passenger jet plane. The truth is that budgetary concerns more than safety issues put the mighty Concorde out of commission.
