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PAT-7701-SUNK-CONCORDEARCHETYPE: Sunk Cost Anchor Lock

Prestige Commitment Lock & Commercial Abort Paralysis

Sub-Type: Bilateral State Sovereign Sunk Cost Escalation

VEC:AUTH:0.94COUP:0.62LAT:0.78OVR:0.89
Authority Gradient
0.94
Feedback Coupling
0.62
Telemetry Latency
0.78
Override Suppression
0.89
Structural Pattern Audit Brief
Critical Multi-Node (Level 4)PAT-7701-SUNK-CONCORDE

Governments continue funding supersonic commercial airliner development long after sonic boom overland bans and jet fuel economics prove commercial failure, trapped by past treaties and international prestige.

Failure Invariant Breach
Economic_Viability_Deficit -> Treaty_Obligation (Abort Suppressed) -> $4B_State_Losses
Absent Safety Recovery Mechanism
Binding economic stop-loss milestones in bilateral state contracts

Fundamental Invariant Rules

INV-01:Past capital and political investment must have strictly zero weight in ongoing project continuation ROI calculations.

Engineered Resilience & Mitigation Strategies

MIT-01:Third-party independent economic review panels with binding termination powers
MIT-02:Tranche-based funding conditional on market demand validation

Canonical Incident Manifestations (1)

BEA-AAR-2000-0725Commercial Supersonic Aviation

Air France Flight 4590: Concorde Runway Titanium Strip Fuel Tank Hydrodynamic Shock

Tire fragment transmitted hydraulic kinetic wave through liquid fuel Buffer_Reserve. Fuel tank skin Constraint_Boundary failed from interior hydrostatic pressure pulse, severing engine thrust channels.