[Maritime Q-Scout]

the biggest problem with the Concorde was none of the reasons cited above (while the two are both major problems) but the fact that it was forbidden to fly over land at Supersonic speeds. It would make cows milk sour, break windows, and was a disturbance to residents living under its flight path. That limited it to flying supersonic over water. Thus demand dropped like a rock in the neighbours swimming pool. Ergo only British Airways, and Air France used the jetliner because it was their governments that funded the project.

The crash in 1998 was more of the last straw, it was on its way out by that time anyway, the planes were getting close to the replacement date, and they weren't going to be replaced with the same thing. They had problems with their tires before; which if I'm not mistaken, I'm going on vague memory here was the problem, the tire exploded and the debris got caught in the engine? Feel free to correct me on that.

I do wish I had the chance to fly in one, but alas it goes into the "to do before I die, but no longer have the chance" pile (like watching Garth in concert).