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Continental Airlines cleared for the Concorde aircraft crash

Paris, France - The mistakes by the mechanics of the company were not enough to make it legally responsible

On Thursday 29 November 2012 a French appeal court cleared Continental Airlines and one of its employees of every criminal responsibility for the crash which, in July 2000 at Paris "Charles De Gaulle" Airport, involved an Air France Concorde aircraft, which caused the death of the 10 persons on board and of a further for who were on the ground. The accident was caused by a metal strip that fell...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1147799
Rome, Italy, 11/29/2012 17:25
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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