Concorde pilot cries 'it's too late’ moments before fireball crash that killed 113

As Air France is acquitted of manslaughter charges following a turbulent two-month trial into an Airbus crash that killed 228 passengers, the chilling final words of the pilot in charge of the flight provider’s most devastating Concorde crash have been brought back to light. Captain Christian Marty was heard screaming out “It’s too late… no time” just moments before the plane careened into a hotel in the small town of Gonesse, France, leading to the death of all 109 passengers, as well as four more on the ground, on July 25, 2000. 

The last words of the pilot during the Air France flight 4590 Concorde plane crash were revealed from a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder after the tragedy.

French investigators confirmed that a burst tyre, which caused a huge fire that devastated the Concorde’s second engine, set off the tragic chain of events which brought the plane down. 

The horrifying ordeal lasted just a few minutes from takeoff to the crash in Gonesse; there was just one minute and 17 seconds between the pilots being alerted to the fire and the death of all passengers on board. 

Captain Christian Marty's last words on July 25 2000, were: “Too late... no time.” The co-pilot then said: “Le Bourget, Le Bourget. Negative; we are trying Le Bourget [airport to land].” Sixteen seconds later the recording ends.

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The Paris control tower had chillingly told the crew seconds before: “Concorde zero... 4590, you have flames. You have flames behind you.”

The chief navigator had added: “Breakdown eng... Breakdown engine two.” Four seconds later, he implored the pilots to “cut engine two”. 

The aircraft tried to gain speed for an emergency landing before Mr Marty was heard saying his final words.

The crew had lost all power in one engine and could neither accelerate nor gain altitude and desperately tried to reach Le Bourget airport to save lives.

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The French investigation later said: “The accident shows that the destruction of a tyre, an event that we cannot say will not recur, had catastrophic consequences in a short period of time, preventing the crew from rectifying the situation.

“The crew had no way of knowing about the nature of the fire nor any means of fighting it.”

It added that they suspected a small metal strip found on the runway, believed to be from another plane, had slashed one of the Concorde’s tyres, “projecting fragments against the fuselage… resulting in a substantial fuel leak”. 

“The leaking fuel caught light and a very violent fire ensued throughout the duration of the flight. Engine problems occurred in engine number 2 and, briefly, in engine number 1.” 

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The revelations have been republished in the wake of a two-month over the fatal Air France flight 447 crash.

The A330-200 plane plunged into the Atlantic Ocean at 11,000 feet per minute on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 persons on board. 

Air France and Airbus were acquitted on Monday of involuntary manslaughter charges as the demonstrative impact of “pilot error” during the incident could not be overcome sufficiently to hold the flight providers more than causally responsible. 

It took two years to find the plane and its black box recorders on the ocean floor, at depths of more than 13,000 feet (around 4,000 metres), and the case lasted more than a decade. 

After the plane crashed, a number of changes to safety regulations, pilot training and the use of airspeed sensors were put in place.