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 ...

The 2000 crash of Air France Flight 4590 marked the tragic downfall of the iconic Concorde, the world’s fastest commercial airliner. What began with a piece of debris on the runway set off a ...

On Thursday, the BEA announced that it had found a metal strip used to divert water ... Ministry grounded all Air France Concorde flights following the crash, and this week it decided to keep ...

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 ...

BA suspended Concorde flights for one day following the crash of an Air France Concorde on July 25 which killed 113 people. Air France has not conducted any Concorde flights since the accident.