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Concorde Disaster

Air France Flight 4590 was a Concorde flight operated by Air France which was scheduled to run from Charles de Gaulle International Airport near Paris, to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. On 25 July 2000, it crashed into a hotel in Gonesse, France. All one hundred passengers and nine crew members on board the flight died. On the ground, four people were killed and one left with serious injuries.

The flight was chartered by German company Peter Deilmann Cruises. All passengers were on their way to board the cruise ship MS Deutschland in New York City^[1][2] for a 16-day cruise to Manta, Ecuador.^[3]

This was Concorde’s only accident in which fatalities occurred. It was the beginning of the end for Concorde as an airliner; the type was retired three years later.

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Contents

• 1 Event summary
• 2 Fatalities
  • 2.1 Passenger and crew
  • 2.2 On ground
• 3 Concorde grounded
• 4 Accident investigation
  • 4.1 Conclusions
• 5 Previous tyre incidents
• 6 Alternative theories
• 7 Modifications and revival
• 8 Criminal investigation
• 9 In media
• 10 References
• 11 External links