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Cake day: March 3rd, 2025

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  • Seems like a pretty gross simplification. The concorde had been in service for 24 years by the time of the accident, and was already seeing decreased patronage. The price of jet fuel in the 70s and 80s prevented any large scale adoption, noise issues hampered this too. By the late 90s the planes were coming up to two decades of service and maintenance costs were rising. It was already on its last legs and the crash was more or less just the last nail in the coffin. If it hadn’t crashed it almost certainly would have retired around then anyway.