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Old Jan 27, 2005 | 1:06 pm
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andrewp
 
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Originally Posted by SEA_Tigger
The CDG crash aside, 9/11 is what really killed Concorde. Forty of BA's top revenue customers were killed in the Towers, evidently, and not only did they spend a ton of cash on Concorde, they controlled the travel budget of a lot of other Concorde passengers, and they're replacement managers stopped flying their employees on Concorde.
Nova ran a very good episode about the Concorde last week (week of 1/17). Your local PBS station may replay it late night this week. Definitely worth watching if you are at all interested.

These statistics came up in that show.
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