The Transportation Ministry grounded all Air France Concorde flights following the crash, and this week it decided to keep the ban in place until experts clarify what caused the disaster.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Air France officials Thursday acknowledged the airline had not made a design change intended to reduce the chance that tire blowouts on the Concorde would damage the supersonic ...

Real Engineering What Actually Happened to the Concorde Posted: March 31, 2025 | Last updated: March 31, 2025 The 2000 crash of Air France Flight 4590 marked the tragic downfall of the iconic ...

Rolls Royce, builder of the engines for Concorde airliners ... Share prices in Air France fell following news of the crash, closing 3.5 per cent lower.

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 ...

The first UK-built Concorde flew from Filton, near Bristol, to Bahrain in 1969, entering regular service with Air France and British ... After an air crash at Paris in 2000, economic factors ...