Concord plane metal strip

Air France flight , flight of a Concorde supersonic airplane that crashed in Gonesse, a suburb of Paris , on July 25, The airplane went down in flames almost immediately after takeoff, killing all people on board and 4 others on the ground. It was the first fatal crash of a Concorde in 24 years of regular passenger service. The event is believed to have hastened the end of all Concorde operations in Flight was a charter flight from Paris to New York City. Most of the passengers were German tourists on their way to board a Caribbean-bound cruise ship in New York City.

The Concorde was one of only two supersonic transport airplanes to have entered commercial service; the other being the Tupolev Tu The product of a joint development and manufacturing effort by British Aircraft Corporation BAC of the United Kingdom, and Aerospatiale of France throughout the 's and 's, the first aircraft entered service in The aircraft was designed to fly at cruise speeds of twice the speed of sound, or a Mach no. Technical and economic challenges to the Concorde resulted in only 20 aircraft being produced, and it was retired from service in

A INCH metal strip suspected of having caused the tyre blowout that triggered the Air France Concorde disaster may be from a jet belonging to the American carrier Continental Airlines. A similar piece was found missing from engine cowling on a Continental DC which took off from Charles de Gaulle airport minutes before the July 25 crash which killed people. The part was said not to be vital for the DC's safety.

The metal strip found on the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport runway which caused a tyre explosion leading to the crash of the Air France Concorde on 25 July came from a poorly executed repair to a Continental Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC thrust reverser, Flight International can reveal. The metal was titanium, not a soft alloy as originally announced by French investigators, and the thrust reverser makers have confirmed to Flight International that it was not an original equipment manufacturer OEM part. After a main gear tyre ran over the titanium strip, the tyre exploded and ignited a wing fire, causing both port engines to lose power.