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ARTICLE · 05 FEBRUARY 2010

Manslaughter Charges - French Concorde Crash Trial Begins

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Five individuals and Continental Airlines have appeared on manslaughter charges as the trial relating to the crash of an Air France Concorde began on Tuesday this week.

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Jan Burgess
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Five individuals and Continental Airlines have appeared on manslaughter charges as the trial relating to the crash of an Air France Concorde began on Tuesday this week. The trial is taking place almost 10 years after the crash in July 2000.

A wing and an engine of the plane caught fire as it took off from Charles De Gaulle airport. The plane was travelling at such speed along the runway that it had no choice but to take off in flames, only to crash some two minutes later in the nearby town of Gonesse. The plane crashed into a hotel, killing all 109 people onboard along with four people on the ground.

In December 2004, a French inquiry into the crash concluded that a piece of metal had fallen from a DC-10 plane run by Continental Airlines that had taken off shortly before the Concorde. It is reported that the Concorde then hit the metal strip, bursting one of its tyres. This blow-out caused rubber and debris to fly up and rupture a fuel tank, which then burst into

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