Yeah, “Concorde was tricky to fly” is a weird claim.  

Research and fact checking was never a strong point on gawker. Seems it still holds true under new management.

Barely remembered? I for one used to hear the daily flight into NYC (that shit was loud) and always looked up when I did. I also deplaned once at JFK and the route to the terminal took us past the Concorde lounge windows and I gawked like a teenager.

“Yet while it cut the 17-hour flight from New York to London down to seven,” You seriously stand by these numbers? In what dimension does it take 17 hours to fly from New York to London?

It’s kinda like those newfangle indirect injection engines in cars.

“There are no longer subsonic commercial flights offered to the public because they were simply impractical.”

What flight from new york to london takes 12 hours.... its more like 6.

Not really good at picking up on internet sarcasm are ya? :)

From what I understand they wanted his blood so that they can test it and hopefully it will come back as dirty (drugs or alcohol etc.). Then if he wanted to bring a civil suit against the department for being injured due to thier high speed chase, which I think is against the departments policy, they can bring up his…

If they could find anything, they could claim the truck driver was at least partially at fault.

To cover their asses over a potential unwarranted high speed chase; blame the victim, not themselves.