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SPACE.com's Full Coverage of the Air France Concorde Crash, July 25,2000
By SPACE.com staff
with Wire Reports
posted: 10:50 pm ET
25 July 2000
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| AirFrance Concorde Disaster | | ConcordeCrash Kills At Least 113 Tuesday, July 25, 2000 An Air France Concorde enroute to New York City crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff Tuesday,slamming into a hotel and a restaurant. A total of 113 people were reportedkilled when the charter flight went down in the first-ever crash of a Concorde. The French Interior Ministrysaid all 109 people aboard were killed. Four victims died at the hotel,the 72-room Relais Bleus, which witnesses said was in flames after thecrash. Fullstory
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Concorde- A Space Age Relic
The Concorde made big headlinesin the days heralded as the start of the Space Age, but it has become atechnological dinosaur, experts said Tuesday in the wake of a deadly crashof one of the supersonic jets. For every hour of flight, the Concorde needseight hours of maintenance on the ground, four times more than for an Airbusaircraft. | HighCost Nixed NASA's Supersonic Research
NASA had plans to developits own supersonic passenger jet in the 1990s but budget cuts and a lackof market demand grounded the project.As they envisioned it, the new supersonicjet could fly 250-300 passengers -- nearly three times as many as can squeezeaboard a Concorde -- at more than 1,500 mph, twice the speed of sound. |
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