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All 109 Aboard Dead in Concorde Crash into Hotel Near Paris; 4 On Ground Dead Archived 16 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine – CNN "Safety Recommendation(s)" (PDF). Washington, DC: National Transportation Safety Board. 9 November 1981. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 August 2009. "Concorde Incidents & Fatal Accident".
25 July 2000 - Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde, was on its take-off roll when it ran over a metal strip left by a Continental Airlines DC-10. One of its tires burst and its pieces hit the fuel tank and ignited a fire. The Concorde stalled and crashed on a hotel in Gonesse, France. All 109 on board and 4 people in the hotel are killed.
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The accident was the third airplane crash in the United States between 1975 and 1985 where more than 100 people were killed due to a microburst. These crashes likely helped to drive the need to ...
The supersonic aircraft suffered a catastrophic crash in Paris on 25 July 2000. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
The 2010 trial involving Continental Airlines over the crash of Flight 4590 established that from 1976 until Flight 4590 there had been 57 tyre failures involving Concordes during takeoffs, including a near-crash at Dulles International Airport on 14 June 1979 involving Air France Flight 54 where a tyre blowout pierced the plane's fuel tank and ...
All 67 people on board the American Airlines regional jet and US Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair Wednesday night are presumed dead – a grim tragedy that has left a heartbreaking ...
A piece of metal from a McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 that fell onto the runway impales the Concorde's tire, which explodes. Debris is flung into the wing, causing a fire and the Concorde's crash into a hotel in Gonesse, killing the 100 passengers and nine crew members on board, as well as four others in the hotel.