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Continental Airlines found not criminally responsible for Concorde crash

Nov. 30, 2012

AMERICAN firm Continental Airlines has been cleared of blame for the deaths of 113 people after a Concorde crashed in Paris shortly after take-off. The incident in July 2000 prompted the grounding of all Concorde flights and ultimately led to the Filton-built airliner's retirement from service in 2003. An appeals court yesterday overturned the decision of another French court, which found two years ago that Continental Airways was criminally responsible for the crash after one of its planes left debris on a runway in Paris, which shredded the tyres of the Air France Concorde, sparking a fire, pictured abovs e.

Source Evening Post

? AMERICAN firm Continental Airlines has been cleared of blame for the deaths of 113 people after a Concorde crashed in Paris shortly after take-off.

The incident in July 2000 prompted the grounding of all Concorde flights and ultimately led to the Filton-built airliner's retirement from service in 2003.

An appeals court yesterday overturned the decision of another French court, which found two years ago that Continental Airways was criminally responsible for the crash after one of its planes left debris on a runway in Paris, which shredded the tyres of the Air France Concorde, sparking a fire, pictured abovs e.