In the trial on the July 2000 crash of an Air France Concorde, Continental Airlines was convicted of manslaughter charges by a Paris court on Monday. The airline was fined €200,000, a Continental mechanic was also found guilty and received a suspended sentence of 15 months.
During its take-off run for a flight to New York, the aircraft ran over a metal piece that the court determined fell off a Continental DC-10 that had taken off immediately before Concorde. The supersonic aircraft’s fuel tank was struck by debris and caught fire. It crash shortly after take-off to the west of Charles de Gaulle airport. 113 people on board were killed. The aircraft never recovered after a 16 month grounding and was finally taken out of service in 2003.
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