Ten years later and the trial as to the reasons behind the explosion over Parisienne skies has just been taken to trial..
Dinah Hatch writes for Travelmole that "The Concorde disaster of July 2000 in which 113 were killed will go under the spotlight today when a four month trial opens to examine why the supersonic jet crashed near Paris..
Continental Airlines and five individuals are on trial at the hearing in Cergy-Pontoise after accusations were made that the carrier illegally used titanium, a very hard metal, to carry out temporary repairs on an aircraft.
French prosecutors will tell the trial that a titanium “wear strip” left on the runway by Continental and subsequently hit by a Concorde tyre, slashing it and sending rubber into fuel tanks and causing a fire, is to blame for the crash.
Continental and two of its staff are among six defendant charged with the manslaughter of 100 people. If convicted, Continental Airways faces a maximum fine of 375,000 euros (£328,000), and the five individual defendants face up to five years in prison and a fine of up to 75,000 euros (£66,000).."
This disaster was, apart from a devastating loss of life, what led to the end of Concorde, and is therefore a mystery to this writer why it has taken so long to come to court..
Barticus.
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