It wasn't the first time the Concorde had exploded tires. There already was several "close calls". The last one was for real, with the power of hindsight, they should have addressed the problem long before the deadly crash.

For me, the best illustration is the Tenerife airport disaster, the deadliest accident in the history of aviation. Two Boeing 747 crashing into each other on the runway during takeoff.

Circumstances included fog, problems in the control tower, nonstandard phraseology, radio interference and overworked personnel.