Concorde fuel tank protection

British Airways Chief Concorde Pilot Mike Bannister pictured at Heathrow Airport with a section of the new kevlar and rubber liner which will be used to protect the fuel tanks of aircraft should the wing skin be punctured. *... It will take a team of 40 engineers between eight and 10 weeks to carry out alterations to each of the airline's seven Concordes. The new liners should prevent any repetition of the devastating fire that brought down the Air France Concorde which crashed near Paris in July 2000, killing all 109 on board as well as four people on the ground. * 18/01/01 British Airways Chief Concorde pilot Mike Bannister at Heathrow Airport with a section of the new kevlar and rubber liner which will be used to protect the fuel tanks of aircraft should the wing skin be punctured. Concorde was Thursday January 18th, 2001, going back into the air for the first time since last summer but only for a flight to a base where checks on the ground will take place. The crew-only flight of an Air France Concorde was from Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport to a military aviation base at Istres, near Marseille in southern France. (Photo by Tim Ockenden - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)