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Concorde crash trial starts in France

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

US airline Continental and five individuals went on trial on Tuesday on manslaughter charges for the crash of the Concorde that left 113 dead, nearly a decade ago...

A French criminal court will examine conflicting explanations of why the Air France jet smashed into a hotel in a ball of fire just after take-off from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on July 25, 2000.

The trial in Pontoise, north of Paris, could last four months as the court debates responsibility for the crash.

Investigators have long said the crash was triggered by a metal strip lying on the runway that had fallen from a Continental DC-10 minutes before.

Continental's lawyers will argue that the Concorde caught fire before it reached the debris and say the American company was just a convenient scapegoat.

The Concorde crash probe has been exhaustive, and the court has amassed 80,000 pages worth of investigation.

Source: AFP

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