As the Concorde prepared to take off from Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris on the afternoon of July 25, 2000, nothing seemed amiss. Air France Flight 4590 was scheduled to fly to New York City ...

CHICAGO (CN) - The aircraft mechanic accused of indirectly causing the Concorde crash that killed 113 people in 2000 - who was exonerated last year - sued United Airlines, claiming it made him the ...

The 2000 crash of Flight 4590, says author Samme Chittum, was a perfect storm of chemistry gone wrong, a disaster as remarkable in its own way as the Concorde’s typical grace in flight. AP ...

Of all the commercial aircraft that have been in operation since the beginning days of flight technology, the Concorde stands alone as the fastest and longest-serving supersonic airliner. The aircraft ...

The famous plane was heading from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport to New York and ploughed into a hotel in the small town of Gonesse, just one minute 17 seconds after its pilot was told it was on ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Despite Concorde’s many achievements, it didn’t live long. For comparison, the iconic Boeing 747 was introduced into service in 1970 and went on to become one of the ...

PONTOISE, France (CBS/AP) Ten years after 113 people died in a fiery crash of Air France's supersonic Concorde jet, a French court is putting Continental Airlines and two of its employees on trial for ...

It comes after a transcript from the dire moments in the cockpit were revealed from the horrific aviation accident that happened in France more than two decades ago. In 2000, the infamous plane was ...

Pilot: "Up to 100, 150" (followed by unclear words, sound of switch). "Top" (noise similar to engines increasing power).

Cambridge University student Alice Brooking had just arrived at the hotel and was on the phone to her sister when she heard a huge explosion and the phone line went dead. She was staying in the ...

THESE are the chilling final words of a Concorde pilot after his plane caught on fire and crashed just 77 seconds into a flight leaving 113 passengers dead. It comes after a transcript from the dire ...

The pointy-nosed plane barreled down the French tarmac and into the air. The crowd of 200,000 spectators that gathered near the runway at Le Bourget Airport for the 1973 Paris Air Show watched the ...