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The Concorde crash in Paris in 2000 was an unforgettable tragedy that ultimately triggered the end of an era for luxury supersonic travel. While relatives of those killed in the crash received a large holiday accident compensation sum shortly after the crash, the trial naming those accountable for the crash was not held until 2010.
The fateful Air France Concorde flight took off on the 25th July 2000 and was plagued with technical faults from the moment it left its hanger. The culmination of these errors ultimately led to the death of all 109 of the plane's occupants as well as five people on the ground.
Investigations found that a small piece of metal from a Continental Airlines aircraft that had taken off before the Concorde had punctured its tires, sending debris into the plane's fuel tanks and setting off a catastrophic fire. It was this fire which led the plane's engines to fail causing the plane to crash into a hotel in the town of Gonesse four miles southwest of Charles de Gaulle airport.
In the 2010 trial, the airline and five individuals faced charges of involuntary manslaughter for the crash. The accused men included a welder who worked for Continental at the time of the incident and his supervisor. Also accused were the head of testing of the Concorde program and the plane's former chief engineer as well as the former head of France's civil aviation body.
The families of the victims who died in the crash were not in court having already accepted £100 million in compensation from Air France in a definitive settlement. However after ten years waiting for the trial, its conclusion may have given the families some kind of closure as a certain amount ofaccountability was taken for their relatives' deaths.
Stephane Gicquel, head of Fenvac, the national federation of collective accident victims reminded those at the hearing that "it is not the trial of an empty plane."
The plane was in fact mostly full of German tourists flying out to New York to meet a luxury cruise that was to take them around the Caribbean. Instead the flight ended in tragedy leading to the deaths of all of the passengers as well as all of the flight's nine crew.
The Concorde crash was a terrible holiday accident which led to the deaths of over 100 holidaymakers and triggered the demise of the distinctive shaped supersonic airliner.
If you have been in a holiday accident that was not your fault, you may be able to make a compensation claim for your personal injuries.
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