A Paris court has deemed Continental Airlines responsible for the crash of a Concorde supersonic jet ten years ago, and has fined the company €200,000 ($266,556).
In July 2000 the Concorde aircraft caught fire shortly after taking off from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France, killing 113 passengers, according to the BBC.
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The court ordered Continental to pay €1m to the jet’s operator Air France, and announced a 15 month suspended prison sentence to Continental mechanic John Taylor over the crash.
The court said that the crash was caused by a piece of metal that fell onto the runway from a Continental jet and caused a tyre to burst in the Concorde, which in turn ruptured a fuel tank.
The investigation revealed that titanium debris dropped by a Continental DC-10 onto the runway at Charles de Gaulle airport before the Concorde took off was responsible for the crash.
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