A Concorde jet bound for New York has crashed in a ball of fire shortly after taking off from Paris, killing 113 people. The Air France aircraft crashed in flames into the Hotelissimo hotel in the ...

The plane crashed minutes later at 4.45pm (1445 GMT ... Monday that they had detected microscopic cracks in the wings of Concorde aircraft, but Air France said there was no danger to passengers.

British Airways canceled its two Tuesday night Concorde flights from London to New York and New York to London. The plane that crashed had been in service since 1980 and had flown 12 000 hours.

In 2000, a Concorde flying from Paris to New York burst into flames and crashed shortly after takeoff when a blown tire ruptured the plane's fuel tanks, killing 113 people. All Concordes were ...

when an Air France Concorde burst into flames and crashed shortly after taking off. The plane caught fire after a blown tire ruptured the Concorde's fuel tanks, and 113 people died in the crash.

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On Monday, British Airways said it had found cracks in the wings of some of its supersonic Concorde aircraft, but said there was no danger to passengers. After the crash Tuesday, the British ...

triggering the fiery crash. "A piece from a Continental Airlines plane caused the Concorde accident," the Air France spokeswoman told Reuters. She added that under the civil aviation legal code ...

In the case of Concorde, the aircraft went a full 30 years before being canceled in 2003, following the 2000 crash of a Concorde into Gonesse, France, just three miles from where the Tu-144 went down.

The Concorde was the fastest commercial plane ever flown ... Other incidents, including the fatal Air France Flight 4590 crash in 2000, made matters worse. "It is a gorgeous airplane," van ...