French president Jacques Chirac was almost killed in the Concorde crash in Paris in July 2000, a new book claims. On that day, the burning Air France Concorde passed within seven yards of an Air ...

There were 57 instances of Concorde planes suffering burst or punctured tyres before last July's Air France crash, according to an interim report by accident investigators. Of these incidents ...

Air France’s F-BVFD first flew in February ... The most popular Concorde routes included: F-BVFD did not crash, land in an emergency, or end up on the front pages of newspapers – it just ...

The death blow came when an Air France Concorde was involved in a fatal crash in 2000. Debris on the runway was blamed for rupturing a tyre, which then punctured one of the fuel tanks. This caused ...

Orville Wright pilots the first sustained flight in a powered, heavier-than-air ... The Concorde, which was wildly popular with jet-setters and time-crunched executives. Keystone-France/Gamma ...

More than once she crash-landed the muslin-skinned ... the gas-guzzling Concorde never broke even. Air France ceased regularly scheduled Concorde service this past May and British Airways in ...

Planes are welcomed with water cannons — called a water salute — as a ceremonial honor. It’s a tradition in aviation for ...

the BEA (France’s aircraft accident investigation agency), the Direction Générale de l’Aviation Civile (DGAC) and the European Agency for Air Security (AESA) for acts of negligence. Similar was the ...

RP: What was the most read story and why? SH: Logically the loss of Air France 447 has moved our readers the most and resulted in more than a million accesses of our coverage of the AF-447. Next is ...

First responders responded to the scene of what the NTSB called an "experimental" plane crash at Langley Air Force Base, ...

Air France-KLM has filed a complaint against U.S.-based parts supplier Woodward with French competition authorities over alleged anti-competitive practices affecting engine part purchasing ...