Air France Flight 4590
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Air France Flight 4590 was an international charter flight from Paris to New York. On 25 July 2000, a Concorde passenger jet operating the flight crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people
The Concorde burning after having run over debris
F-BTSC, the aircraft involved in the accident, pictured in June 2000
N13067, the DC-10 involved in the accident sequence
N13067, the DC-10 involved, was scrapped at Mojave, California, in 2002.
Concorde
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Concorde is a retired Anglo-French supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation. Studies began in 1954 and a UK–France treaty followed in
Air France Flight 4590
…Air France Flight 4590 was an international charter flight from Paris to New York. On 25 July 2000, a Concorde passenger jet operating the flight crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and 4 on the ground. It was the only fatal Concorde…
Concorde after takeoff in 1986
British minister of technology Tony Benn (left) and Sud Aviation president Maurice Papon (right) during the presentation of the French Concorde prototype, December 1967.
British Airways Concorde in early BA livery at London-Heathrow Airport in the early 1980s
Concorde 001 first flight in 1969