Air France Flight 4590

Air France Flight 4590 was a tragic event that happened on July 25, 2000. It was a Concorde flight operated by Air France. The flight was supposed to go from Paris to New York City. But shortly after takeoff, the airplane crashed into a hotel in a suburb of Paris in Gonesse.The crash was caused by a piece of metal on the runway from a DC-10 that punctured one of the airplane's fuel tanks. This led to a fire, and the airplane lost power in its engines. It couldn't fly properly and crashed. All 109 people on board the airplane and 4 people on the ground died in the crash.This accident led to the temporary grounding of the Concorde fleet and changes in how the airplane was operated.

Air France Flight 4590 Media

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  F-BTSC, the Concorde involved in the accident, photographed in 1985

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  N13067, the DC-10 involved in the accident sequence, photographed in 1996

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  N13067, the DC-10 involved, was scrapped at Mojave, California, in 2012.