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US-based Continental Airlines ‘responsible’ for 2000 Concorde crash: Paris court | | US-based Continental Airlines was “criminally responsible” for the crash of a Concorde supersonic jet in July 2000, a Paris court said on Monday. Air France
flight 4590 had caught fire shortly after take-off from Charles de Gaulle airport
in Paris and crashed in Gonesse, killing all 100 passengers and nine crew members
on board the flight, and four people on the ground. The court ruled that a titanium
strip left on the runway that fell from a Continental Airlines DC-10 that had
taken off minutes earlier caused the crash, the BBC reports. Investigators said
that it caused a tyre-burst in the jet, which in turn ruptured a fuel tank. Continental
had disputed this interpretation, saying that the airliner, operated by Air France
, was already in flames before it hit the small piece of titanium. Following the
verdict, Air France , which paid out 100 million euros in compensation to victims’
families, may decide to seek to reclaim some of that money from the US company.
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