CONTINENTAL Airlines and one of its mechanics were convicted in a French court of manslaughter yesterday because debris from one of its planes caused the crash of an Air France Concorde jet that killed 113 people a decade ago.

US airline Continental and one of its mechanics were today convicted of causing the Air France Concorde crash that killed 113 people 10 years ago.

A court today finally began to decide who was to blame for Air France’s 2000 Concorde crash, an accident that killed 113 people and hastened the end of the world’s only supersonic airliner.

FRENCH prosecutors summoned two US airline executives for questioning yesterday after another report into the fatal Concorde crash outside Paris found a metal strip from one of their airliners caused the crash.