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Season 14 • Episode 3

Concorde, Up in Flames (Air France Flight 4590)

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2015-01-19 ★ 8.0 45 min

On 25 July 2000, a Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 en route to New York City, USA, stalls and crashes into a hotel in Gonesse shorty after take off from Charles de Gaulle International Airport. The plane had struck foreign debris from a Continental Airlines DC-10 causing the plane's fuel tanks to ignite and the engines to fail. All of the 109 passengers and crew die in the incident and 4 on the ground.

Jeff Gruen
Dwayne Bryshun
Cory Cooper
Mark Caven
Brian J. Graham
Lawrence Cotton
Alain Patry
Gilles Logelin