Concorde crash four face probe
PARIS – A French prosecutor has asked judges to bring manslaughter charges against US airline Continental over the crash of an Air France Concorde in 2000.
BBC Online reports that the prosecutor also recommended similar charges against two Continental employees and two French officials.
One hundred and thirteen people died in the crash outside Paris.
A French inquiry said it was caused by a metal strip from a Continental Airlines plane, which shredded one of the Concorde’s tyres as it took off.
The Air France Concorde caught fire and crashed soon after take-off from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport.
Inquiries revealed that debris from a Continental DC-10 on the runway had caused the Concorde’s tyre to burst.
Fragments from the tyre then punctured the plane’s fuel tanks, causing the fire.
Those killed included 109 people on board the supersonic jet and four people on the ground.
Bernard Farret, a deputy prosecutor in the city of Pontoise, outside Paris, said he had made the charges request in an effort to bring the airline and four individuals to trial.
The BBC said a judge is expected to decide in coming weeks whether to accept the request.
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