Mystery Of Supersonic Airplane : On 25th July 2000, around 4PM, Air France flight 4590 was ready to take off. This plane was going from Paris to New York. But it wasn’t a normal passenger flight. This is the flight of the Supersonic Concorde plane. An airplane which travels at double the speed of sound. You can compare its speed with a bullet shot from a gun. Normally, passenger flights by normal airplanes, take 8 hours to travel from Paris to New York. But this Supersonic Concorde airplane can travel this distance in a mere 3 and a half hours.
It’s also special because this flight was full of rich people. Flying in Concorde is considered a luxury. It is not something which can be afforded by an average person. Because a round-trip ticket between Paris and New York costs $12,000. And this was 22 years ago. Taking inflation into account, it would be around $20,000 in today’s money. This flight ticket cost more than ₹1.5 million.
At 4:40 PM, this flight was ready to take off, and starts speeding up on the runway. As soon as this airplane picks up speed on the runway, the Air Traffic Controller in the airport spot a fire under the plane. He informed the pilot. But by then the plane was already going quite fast, and by then it was too late to abort the flight. The plane couldn’t be stopped. That’s what the pilot told the Air Traffic Controller. Within seconds, this plane takes off, and the fire keeps building up, and soon the fire went out of control.
