A Sad Story - The Forgotten Plane

On October 1st 1969, she makes its first ever supersonic flight. Flying at 1350mph, Concorde is no doubt the fastest passenger carrier ever made in the history. However, nobody has spoken a word of it today. More than 2.5 million passengers have flown supersonically on this Concorde since she entered commercial service in 1976 but it has been retired in year 2003.

What make such a beast be left in the history?

First of all, Concorde itself costs 23 million pounds as in British pounds. So, you might be thinking a Boeing Airbus 787 costs around 100 million pounds. But, Concorde is built almost 40 years back and considering money inflation, it would be easily more than 200 million pounds. Even with today technology, it's still far to expensive to be built.

Secondly, Concorde is very expensive to be maintained. It's said that the cost to maintain a Concorde is almost equivalent to the weight of it in gold. It cost a staggering 100 million just to maintain 20 Concorde at a time. Why 20 Concorde? It's because there's only 20 Concordes that exist in the history.

Thirdly, it's due to the major crash on the 25th July 2000. Yes even normal airplane built by boeing do crush onto the surface of the earth. However, this is different! 100 passengers, 9 crew members and even 4 people on the ground were killed in the crash.

Well, I hope you are thinking what i am thinking. Well, it's just a crash out of thousands of successful flight and will this actually jeopardize the pride of Concorde?

Concorde is not a piece of technology built in America or even Germany or Japan and probably not China too. This airplane is founded by France and British and Concorde is only available in Air France and British Airways. Concorde is not found in any other airlines for the 34 years of Concorde's service to human beings. What make you think that other countries are not jealous about this?

After that Concorde Flight 4590 crash, many countries start to publicize the safety of the Concorde and saying that the airplane is causing too much noise pollution. Why did they not bring this issues up for the past 30 years? Considering Concorde flies at high cost consuming 4 times more fuels than a normal airplane, it only teleports people who can pay for it. With all these media coverage on Concorde, the rich sure want to be rich and not dead and chooses the normal flight with normal airplane.

If only the Concorde has not run into a metal fragment, punctured its tires and burst its fuel tank during the take off, if only the Concorde is not being accused of the death of 113 people, if only other countries are not envious, what could possibly be the change to today's transportation system? Can you imagine a speed that no passenger carrier today can overcome was built 40 years ago? If Concorde exists till today, i believe Concorde will revolutionize the airplane system.