The 2000 crash of Air France Flight 4590 marked the tragic downfall of the iconic Concorde, the world’s fastest commercial ...

The Concorde suffered a fatal crash in July 2000, which spurred the end of the supersonic jet program. What's next for mach ...

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Air India flight AI 171 crashed in India's Ahmedabad, a Concorde crash outside the French capital of Paris changed aviation ...

Air France says its aircraft could have at least seven more years of service. Air France Concorde F-BTSC had undergone heavy routine maintenance less than a week before it crashed, according to ...

Air France grounded its Concorde fleet after a crash in the Paris suburb of Gonesse on July 25, 2000, that killed 109 people on the plane and four on the ground. Britain followed suit weeks later.

Air France and British Airways announced they would be retiring their fleet of Concorde planes on April 10, 2003. Later that year, in October, the supersonic passenger airplane had its final flight.

Concorde is a story of joy, of emotion, of technical prowess," said Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, an Air France staffer, before the flight departed with 58 passengers, three pilots and eight cabin crew.

Air France said Wednesday that it has filed a lawsuit against Continental Airlines because it believes a metal strip from a Continental DC-10 led to the crash of its Concorde jet in July.French ...