Charges brought over Concorde crash
The Concorde, carrying mostly German tourists bound for a deluxe Caribbean holiday cruise, was taking off in Paris on July 25, 2000, when an engine caught fire. Trailing a plume of flames, it crashed into a hotel in the town of Gonesse, 6km south-west of Charles de Gaulle airport.
Investigations found that a small piece of metal from a Continental aircraft that had taken off before the Concorde had punctured its tyres, sending debris into the sleek drop-nosed plane’s fuel tanks and setting off the fatal fire.