British Airways, the only other airline operating the supersonic jet, continued its Concorde schedules after a one-day suspension, saying it had made checks and was confident of the jets' safety. The airline has operated its four daily trans-Atlantic flights since with no significant decrease in passenger bookings. British Airways said Tuesday it had been informed that Concorde's certificate is to be suspended on Wednesday by Britain and France. Last week, France's Accident Investigation Bureau said the July 25 crash probably came about because a tire was burst by a piece of metal on the runway as the plane roared toward its takeoff. Flying debris from the tire presumably punctured a fuel tank underneath the plane's wing, and the leaking aviation fuel caught fire.
Investigators have yet to reach a full understanding of the sequence of events, however.
For instance, they are still trying to determine why one of the jet's engines failed and another lost power during the take-off. The plane taxied back to the terminal and passengers transferred to subsonic flights. The Macon Telegraph. The information you receive online from The Macon Telegraph is protected by the copyright laws of the United States. The copyright laws prohibit any copying, redistributing, retransmitting or repurposing of any copyright-protected material.