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With speeds over Mach 2, Concorde shrank the Atlantic to just 3 hours. This supersonic marvel changed flight forever.
Concorde left the ground. But hindered by drag from the undercarriage – which could not be retracted because of the damage – the aircraft was catastrophically short of power and out of control.
On July 25, 2000, an Air France Concorde supersonic jet crashed on takeoff from Paris, killing 113 people, including four on the ground.
The Concorde program was the world's first supersonic airliner, undertaken in a joint development and manufacturing effort by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Concorde took ...
On July 25, 2000 the Concorde jet designated as Air France Flight 4590 crashed two minutes after takeoff from Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport on its scheduled flight to New York City. The plane ...
Air France's streamlined white Concorde swooped into a Paris airport on its final commercial flight home, an emotional end to years of supersonic travel between New York and Paris. The plane ...
Why did Concorde stop flying? And could it make a comeback? US aerospace firm wants to accept passengers by the end of 2029. But what was Concorde, its famous supersonic plane predecessor?
On July 25, 2000, a New York City-bound Concorde aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff due to an engine failure. Air France Flight 4590, a supersonic aircraft, crashed into a small hotel in the ...