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Prosecutors seek suspended sentence for ex-Concorde chief
French prosecutors called for a two-year suspended jail term Friday for Henri Perrier, the former head of the Concorde programme, over the deadly crash of the supersonic jet near Paris in July 2000.
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AFP - French prosecutors called Friday for a two-year suspended jail term against the 80-year-old former head of the Concorde programme, at a trial into a deadly crash of the supersonic jet in 2000.
Henri Perrier, who directed the Concorde programme at Aerospatiale, now part of EADS, from 1978 to 1994, was accused at the trial of ignoring warning signs from a string of incidents on Concorde planes before the accident.
Prosecutors also sought a 175,000-euro (220,000-dollar) fine against Continental Airlines over the crash near Paris on July 25, 2000, which claimed 113 lives and sounded the death knell for commercial supersonic travel.
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Concorde
The fact that one Concorde crashed should not mean that supersonic air travel should be scrapped.
The Titanic sank, but we still have luxery liners.
The Space Shuttle continued after loosing not one but two shuttles and crews.
Learn from mistakes and move on. The Western technology we have today leaves the old supersonic technology in the dust.
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