The 2000 crash of Air France Flight 4590 marked the tragic downfall of the iconic Concorde, the world’s fastest commercial ...

Concorde was taken out of service in 2001 is on track to become the world’s leading supersonic passenger aircraft once again.

PARIS - The first word that something had gone terribly wrong with the Concorde came from the control tower when the plane was in the air, according to a preliminary report made public Thursday by ...

By the time Air France Flight 4590 began its takeoff, the chartered Concorde was almost 80 minutes behind schedule. That's a big delay for a plane that makes the entire trip from Charles de Gaulle to ...

During its takeoff from Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, Air France Flight 4590 heaves itself off the ground, only to find its engines on fire and landing gear stuck. The pilot is unable either to ...

A s Air France Flight 4590 taxied into position on Charles de Gaulle Airport’s Runway 24, Captain Christian Marty’s eyes would have carefully scanned the 1960s-era round gauges in the Concorde ...

The crash is widely remembered in France for the harrowing photos of Flight 4590 engulfed in flames and the wreckage of the incident. After the tragedy, Air France withdrew Concorde's from its fleet - ...

2000-07-28 04:00:00 PDT Paris-- Flight recorders show that the pilots of the Air France Concorde that crashed on Tuesday had problems with both engines on the plane's left side and also reported ...

The last words of the pilot during the Air France flight 4590 Concorde plane crash were revealed from a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder after the tragedy which saw 113 people die.

The Crash Of Air France Flight 4590. It was 2.38 pm on July 25, 2000, and a Concorde had just taken off from Runway 26 of the Charles de Gaulle international airport in Paris.