Concorde, Up in Flames (Air France Flight 4590)
Run Time: 46 mins
Air Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.5 (2 votes)
5 Discovery Sky History National Geographic Channel National GeographicSeason 14 - Episode 3
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.5 (2)
On 25 July 2000, a Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 en route to New York City, USA, stalls and crashes into a hotel in Gonesse shorty after take off from Charles de Gaulle International Airport. The plane had struck foreign debris from a Continental Airlines DC-10 causing the plane's fuel tanks to ignite and the engines to fail. All of the 109 passengers and crew die in the incident and 4 on the ground.