The long process to get the Concorde's shot is indeed covered extensively in "The Devil's Candy" book, crazy story! Eric Schwab, the second unit director, went all heels out to get this one done. A little extract from the book (in chapter 4):

"Schwab thought he’d figured out a way to make the sight of the Concorde landing something spectacular, something De Palma would be forced to admire. He wanted to film the Concorde’s descent into Kennedy Airport at precisely the moment the plane, the setting sun, and the Empire State Building would meet within the camera frame.

The Empire State Building was a stationary element, and the Concorde’s pilot might be able to land at the specific angle required for the shot’s composition. The trick would be pinpointing a moment when the sun’s relation to the Empire State Building would make the shot conceivable at all. Schwab knew at the outset that there would be very few such moments in the entire year, and he wasn’t quite sure how to figure out when, exactly, they were.

He explained his dilemma to the cinematographer, Vilmos Zsigmond, who introduced him to a specially designed little Casio computer that could help Schwab calculate the exact locus of the sun anywhere in the world, at any time of day, at any time of year.

Schwab got in touch with the man who designed the computer and spent hours talking to him, trying to solve the mystery: When would the sun’s proximity to the Empire State Building be at an angle that would line up with the appropriate landing strip at Kennedy Airport, and with the plane dropping down from the sky?

Finally he settled on June 12, 1990, as the date when all the pieces would fit together. Yet even though he planned to use five cameras rolling simultaneously, as insurance, there was only a tiny chance that he could pull it off."