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PARIS (CNN) -- French investigators have found ... One aviation expert said the metal could have played a role in the first-ever Concorde crash. "Having an object on the runway can be very ...
LONDON, England--A British Airways Concorde has successfully completed the first supersonic test flight since last year's crash near Paris. The supersonic aircraft -- Alpha Foxtrot -- took off ...
PARIS -- A preliminary report into last month's Concorde tragedy in which 113 people ... assessment of technical issues surrounding the crash of the Air France plane and will not look to attribute ...
French president Jacques Chirac was almost killed in the Concorde crash in Paris in July 2000, a new book claims. On that day, the burning Air France Concorde passed within seven yards of an Air ...
A question mark also hangs over Wednesday’s Concorde flights from Heathrow ... “There is no indication as yet to the cause of the crash in Paris. There is nothing we can do until the French ...
The offer came as an Air France Concorde was due to take off from Paris today for a check of its new tyres in only the fourth flight since the crash. Flight expert Elmar Giemulla, former interior ...
Its predecessor, the Concorde, could fly from London to New York in under three hours before it was retired in 2003, not long after a catastrophic Air France crash in Paris in July 2000 that ...
However, it was louder, more uncomfortable, and unpopular compared to Concorde. A crash at the Paris Air Show in 1973 marred the Tu-144's reputation and shook confidence in its design. Aeroflot ...
Parts of the engines and nose cone were made in Scotland. After an air crash at Paris in 2000, economic factors led to Concorde's retirement in 2003 when the Concorde G-BOAA, which was the first ...