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This was released then...

posted 8 years ago by JackAteSally
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... the fatal Flight 4590 of the Air France Concorde happened a few months after. It was a charter headed toward JFK airport in NYC on July 25th of 2000. As it approached takeoff speed, the plane struck a thin metal strip on the runway, causing one of its tires to burst. The strip had fallen from the underside of a Continental Airlines DC-10 that had departed minutes earlier, bound for Houston. Chunks of the burst tire impacted the Concorde’s wing at tremendous velocity, resulting in a powerful shock wave within the wing’s fuel tank that ultimately punctured it. Gases from the engines then ignited leaking fuel, touching off a huge fire.

Ultimately the Concorde crashed into a hotel. All passengers died, including the pilot and even some pedestrians. Must have launched rental sales.

"Oh... I'm not afraid."
-Pamela Voorhees

[–] Stratego 8 years ago

There are big aviation accidents pretty much every year, so there's nothing eerie about it. The accident in this movie has more similarities with the TWA Flight 800 accident in 1996, on which it is based and the footage of which they actually used.

[–] JackAteSally 8 years ago

It's definitely eery, but continue to hate. It was a compartmental accident. Never did i say it mirrored the movie.

"Oh... I'm not afraid."
-Pamela Voorhees

[–] Stratego 8 years ago

Who or what am I exactly hating??? Air France Flight 4590 crashed on the ground after the engines lost power and one of the wings and the landing gears were damaged due to debris rupturing a fuel tank and the leaking fuel causing a fire. The TWA Flight 800 accident (which inspired this movie) was caused by an explosion of flammable fuel vapors in the fuel tank that destroyed the plane in mid-air, probably due to a short circuit. If there are no similarities, then what's the point of this thread? One month after the movie's release a Air Philippines flight crashed. Eerie!

[–] JackAteSally 8 years ago

Continue on.

"Oh... I'm not afraid."
-Pamela Voorhees

[–] qdude440 8 years ago

The crash was obviously heavily influenced by TWA Flight 800 a few years before, right on down to the location and some of the details (A high school French class onboard taking a school trip). Similarities to any subsequent events are pretty minor.

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[–] vegan_voorhees (383) 5 years ago

I flew into Paris CDG about a week after that crash (it was dark though, so couldn't see any signs that it had happened) and there was a big billboard for Final Destination in the city, which did seem creepy, given that the Concorde was going in the opposite direction.