Concorde ‘Father’ in Spotlight Over Tyre Risk Oversight
The failure to address a tyre-related safety weak spot may end up costing the ‘father of the Concorde’ a suspended prison sentence. Henri Perrier, now 80 years old, directed the Concorde programme at Aerospatiale from 1978 to 1994. French proescutors have accused him of ignoring warning signs from a string of incidents involving Concorde airliners before the crash near Paris in July 2000.