Six parties accused of responsibility in the 2000 Concorde crash that claimed 113 lives go on trial again Thursday in Paris as the court reconsiders technical evidence. A 2010 trial found US carrier Continental and one employee guilty of negligence.
US airline Continental has been found criminally responsible for the fatal 2000 Concorde crash. The crash killed 113 people and bought the era of supersonic passenger flights to an abrupt end.
A French court has found Continental Airlines and one of its mechanics guilty of manslaughter over the 2000 Concorde crash that killed 113 people. The company was fined 200,000 euros. All French engineers were cleared.
A decade after a supersonic Concorde jet crashed into a hotel outside Paris just after taking off, a French court is to finally rule Monday whether it was European engineers or an American company to blame for the consequent deaths of 113 people.
Relatives of the 113 people killed in the 2000 Concorde crash near Paris will have to wait until December 6 for a verdict in the trial that ended in France on Friday.
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.
As a trial opens to establish responsibility for the fatal crash of an Air France Concorde jet outside Paris ten years ago, we take a look back at the crown jewel of Franco-British engineering. Also in this edition: will the media exposure of a second 'Clearstream' trial help put the political career of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin back on track?
US airline Continental and three French aviation officials went on trial outside Paris on Tuesday in connection with the July 2000 crash of an Air France Concorde leaving Charles de Gaulle airport in which 113 people died.
Ten years after a fiery Paris crash ended the dream of supersonic travel, a French court will try to determine who was to blame for the Concorde disaster that grounded three decades of aviation history.
Were the Concorde manufacturers responsible for the July 2000 crash in Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris or was it the fault of a Continental Airlines flight that left debris behind on the runway? A case opened today in the Paris region to investigate the disaster.
