Concorde crash trial gets underway

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.

The trial in Pontoise, outside Paris, could last four months as the hearing discusses responsibility for the July 25, 2000 crash minutes after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle airport.