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.
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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