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.

Continental Airlines is to defer firm deliveries of 36 Boeing 737 aircraft originally scheduled for delivery in 2005, 2006 and 2007 due to weakness in the aircraft industry.

Continental Airlines announced Saturday that it is cutting its schedule of flights by 20% and laying off 12,000 employees due to the reluctance of both business and leisure travelers to return to the skies after Tuesday's terrorist attack on the United States.