PARIS (CNN) -- French investigators have found ... One aviation expert said the metal could have played a role in the first-ever Concorde crash. "Having an object on the runway can be very ...

French president Jacques Chirac was almost killed in the Concorde crash in Paris in July 2000, a new book claims. On that day, the burning Air France Concorde passed within seven yards of an Air ...

Tests of the metallic strip found on the runway in Paris ... of the Concorde tyres. Investigators said that tests to try to reproduce the fuel tank rupture which occurred in the crash had "not ...

the tragic crash of Air France flight 4590, a Concorde service from Paris to New York, accelerated its decline even further.

Concorde's retirement in 2003 brought the curtain down on an era of supersonic passenger flights. Now, two decades later, Boom Supersonic is trying to revive that era. It's not just about the speed, ...

Parts of the engines and nose cone were made in Scotland. After an air crash at Paris in 2000, economic factors led to Concorde's retirement in 2003 when the Concorde G-BOAA, which was the first ...

Among other destinations, Concorde flew regular transatlantic flights from London's Heathrow Airport and Paris' Charles de ... cruise ship in New York. An air crash investigation found that ...