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.

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.

Relatives of five French crew members killed in the Air France Concorde crash have launched actions against a US airline and tyre company on the first anniversary of the disaster.