July 2000 Paris Crash Concorde Fixed Wing Aircraft

July 2000 Paris Crash Concorde Fixed Wing Aircraft

On July 25, 2000, Air France flight 4590, a Concorde chartered by the German tour operator Deilmann, crashed near Gonesse, France shortly after takeoff from Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport. All 109 aboard were killed as well as four on the ground. Subsequent investigation determined that a metal strip on the runway, which had fallen off a Continental Airlines DC-10, caused a tire in the main landing gear to burst. Fragments from the tire punctured the Concorde's underwing fuel tanks, leading to the aircraft's demise and contributing to the grounding of the fleet.

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Time: The Concorde Crash - Transcript of a July 25, 2000 Time Magazine/Yahoo! online chat about the crash with aviation reporter Jerry Hannifin.
Final Report on the Accident Happened to the Concorde - PDF files of translated findings of the Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile (BEA), including analysis of recorded data as well as laboratory measurements and tests, and CVR transcript.
Washington Post: Concorde Crash - Newspaper special report including Post articles, MSNBC video, and other multimedia and links.
BBC News: Concorde Crash - News coverage and analysis of the Concorde crash near Paris.

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