The book also made the following claims: There was a catalogue of operational and cockpit errors on the day of the fatal Concorde crash - July 25, 2000; The crew took off with an over-weight plane ...

The report added that runway tests with tyres identical to those installed on the crashed Concorde running over a metallic strip of the same shape as that found on the runway reproduced damage ...

Will Boom bring boom time back to supersonic travel? 'New Concorde' prompts revival talk - The aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic is the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier ...

Those commercial flights could be limited to ocean crossings or would have to slow down over land to limit damage ... On July 25, 2000, an Air France Concorde crashed into a hotel and exploded ...