The closest I’ve ever been to being on a supersonic flight was looking at the Concorde on static display at the Intrepid Museum in New York. But, for an entire generation of travelers and aviators, ...
PARIS — A decade after a supersonic Concorde jet crashed in a fiery wreck outside Paris soon after takeoff, killing 113 people, a French court will rule Monday on who, if anyone, is to blame. The ...
VERSAILLES, France -- Continental Airlines, several mechanics and a former French official went back on trial in France Thursday over the deadly 2000 crash of a Concorde supersonic jet. With one of ...
A Concorde crash in 2000 that left 113 dead was caused partially by the criminal negligence of Continental and a mechanic who works for the company, a French court ruled Monday. The airline and the ...
31 December 1968 Concorde’s Soviet rival, the Tupolev Tu-144, took off for the first time from a runway to the side of the factory where it was built in Zhukovski, southeast of Moscow. The plane was ...
PONTOISE, France — A French court has ordered Continental Airlines Inc. to pay Air France SA more than €1 million in damages over the crash of a supersonic Concorde jet outside Paris a decade ago that ...
(AP) — Was an abandoned scrap of metal on the runway really the main culprit in the fiery crash of an Air France Concorde shortly after takeoff? That finding, insisted upon by French investigators for ...
* Trial starts to determine cause of 2000 Concorde crash * Continental Airlines, five individuals face trial * Trial expected to last until May 28 By Sophie Taylor PONTOISE, France, Feb 2 (Reuters) - ...
PONTOISE, France (Reuters) - A French court on Monday found Continental Airlines and a mechanic at the U.S. airline guilty of involuntary manslaughter for their part in the 2000 Concorde crash, in a ...
A former Concorde pilot said having the opportunity to fly the supersonic plane was "beyond my wildest dreams". John Tye, ...
VERSAILLES, France -- A French appeals court on Thursday absolved Continental Airlines of blame for a 2000 Concorde crash that killed 113 people and cleared a mechanic at the U.S. airline of the ...