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VICTIMS' FAMILIES FILE SUIT IN CONCORDE CRASH

USA, The families of three victims who died in last summer's crash of a Concorde jet near Paris filed suit in U.S. federal court seeking compensation from seven defendants, including Air France and Continental Airlines, owner of the DC-10 aircraft from which a metal shard from the engine fell and landed on the runway, puncturing a Concorde tire and possibly causing the crash. A total of...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 6482
Rome, Italy, 01/10/2001 14:09
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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