For a detailed timeline of all the events that led up to and since the French Concorde crash, visit www.aviation.about.com. This website offers many details about the ongoing investigation into the Concorde FOD crash. Interesting to note: On January 6, 2001, French air accident investigators revealed that before the Concorde crash outside Paris last July, there had been six previous incidents in which burst tires had perforated Concorde fuel tanks.
There have been 57 formally recorded tire blowouts for the Concorde, with nearly 50% of the blowouts occurring during takeoff caused by foreign object debris. Of these 57 recorded incidents, 21 were not formally studied because of lack of recorded information. Here are the statistics:
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12 have lead to structural damage to wing
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6 of which resulted in punctured fuel tanks
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19 were caused by foreign objects
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22 during takeoff
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1 where the tire perforated the fuel tank
