tower that they have fire. so they go, i have a fire in the number two engine. but the situation is not what the pilots suspect. desperately trying to get enough speed to get airborne, they try to pull up the landing gear. it wouldn t come up because the left side was damaged by the fire. they are not in a position to continue level flight, and at that point they realized they needed on the ground at the closest airport. it wasn t a good choice, but it the best choice that they had. you have a fire and it s not just contained to the engine. it s now encompassed. almost the full bottom of the left wing. it was a plane trying to survive. seconds later, engine number one fails. the concorde s chances of making the airfield rapidly diminish. you have two engines trying to do the work of four. an airplane wallowing in the air because it hasn t built up sufficient flying speed and now you have a controllability issue. and you have an airplane that s on fire. the plane became
they have been told by control tower that they have fire. so they go, i have a fire in the number two engine. but the situation is not what the pilots suspect. desperately trying to get enough speed to get airborne, they try to pull up the landing gear. it wouldn t come up because the left side was damaged by thç fire. they are not in a position to continue level flight, and at that point they realized they needed on the ground at the closest airport. it wasn t a good choice, but it the best choice that they had. you have a fire and it s not just contained to the engine. it s now being encompassed it was a plane trying to survive. seconds later, engine number one fails. the concorde s chances of making the airfield rapidly diminish. you have two engines trying to do the work of four. an airplane wallowing in the air because it hasn t built up sufficient flying speed and
begun to get warnings. they have been told by control tower that they have fire. so they go hmm, we have a fire. desperately trying to get enough speed to get airborne they try to pull up the landing gear. it wouldn t come up because the left side was damaged by the fire. they are not in a position to continue level flight, and at that point they realized they needed on the ground at the closest airport. it wasn t a good choice but it the best choice that they had. you have a fire and it s not just contained to the engine it s now being em compassed it was a plane trying to survive. seconds later, engine number one fail. the concorde s chances of making the airfield rapidly diminish. you have two engines trying to dot work of four. an airplane wallowing in the air because it hasn t built up sufficient flying speed and an airplane on fire. the plane became totally unflyable, trying to reduce the power on the two living engines. as bystanders watch in horror, the plan
desperately trying to get enough speed to stay airborne, they attempt to pull up the landing gear. it wouldn t come up because the left hand undercarriage had been damaged by the fire. they were not in a position to continue level flight. at that point, they realized they needed on the ground, the closest airport. it wasn t a good choice, but it was the best choice that they had. you had a fire. it s not just contained to the engine. it s now encompassed almost the full bottom of the left wing. it was a plane trying to survive. seconds later, engine number one fails. the concorde s chances of making the airfield rapidly diminish. now you have two engines trying to do the work of four. an airplane wallowing in the air because it hasn t built up sufficient flying speed and now a controllablity issue. and an airplane that s on fire. the plane will became totally unflyable. the crew tried to recover by reducing the power on the two