Continental Airlines faces manslaughter charges over Paris Concorde crash - Charles Bremner
Continental Airlines, the American carrier, must stand trial on manslaughter charges over its alleged role in the crash of the Air France Concorde that killed 113 people in 2000, a French prosecutor has decided. A similar charge should also be brought against a French engineer involved in the development of the supersonic jet, the former head of France's civil aviation authority and two Continental Airlines staff, he said.
An inquiry in 2004 found that the Concorde ran over a strip of aluminium as it sped towards take-off on a chartered flight to New York on July 25, 2000. The strip, which was identified as a tail component of a Continental Airlines jet, shredded one of the Concorde's tyres, sending chunks of reinforced rubber through a fuel tank and setting the aircraft ablaze.
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