Air Crash Investigations: THE END OF THE CONCORDE ERA, The Crash of Air France Flight 4590

On Tuesday 25 July 2000 Air France Flight AFR 4590, a Concorde registered F-BTSC, took off from Paris Charles de Gaulle, to undertake a charter flight to New York with nine crew members and one hundred passengers on board. During takeoff from runway 26 right at Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport, a tyre was damaged. A major fire broke out. The aircraft was unable to gain height or speed and crashed onto a hotel, killing all 109 people on board and 4 on the ground. The crash would become the end of the Concorde era.

Author: George Cramoisi
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 12/13/2010
Pages: 532
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9780557849505

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