ASW #3: Accident Review: FOD Brings Down the Concorde

The third day of Airport Safety Week sees one of the annual event’s most enduring activities - the FOD walk. As I am not currently working on an airport or in Australia, I am going to miss taking part this year. Instead, I thought I would offer an analysis of the 2000 Concorde disaster as it would have to be the most significant FOD-related accident in history.

The following analysis is very limited. I just want to focus on the presence of the FOD on the runway, its immediate impact on the aircraft and factors associated with FOD detection and prevention.

Header Image : (cc) Daniel Mennerich (via Flickr)