The report said it was "more and more probable" that a strip of metal from a Continental ... had been replaced only 16 days before the Concorde crash. The report said that investigators had ...

It emerged that a routine noon inspection of the runway, which could have spotted the 17-inch metal strip, was delayed by a fire drill on the day of the crash. The Concorde ploughed into the ...

It was a step toward reviving supersonic commercial travel, which has been on hiatus since the Concorde jet was grounded ... that the plane ran over a metal strip, damaging a tire that crashed ...

A deadly crash more than two decades ago hastened the jet's demise. On July 25, 2000, an Air France Concorde crashed into a hotel and ... Investigators determined that the plane ran over a metal strip ...