Air France Flight 4590, travelling from Paris' Charles De Gaulle to New York's JFK, collided with a hotel just a minute after take-off ...

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But Concorde had passed “V1” – the speed beyond which it is not possible safely to reject a take-off . For this flight V1 was calculated to be 173mph.