Air France Crash: 113 Die, Safety Rules Change
The Concorde disaster at Charles de Gaulle Airport killed 113 people when a burst tire sent debris into the fuel tanks during takeoff, triggering an engine fire that doomed the aircraft within seconds. Investigators traced the chain of failure to a metal strip dropped on the runway by a preceding Continental Airlines DC-10. The crash exposed the aging fleet's vulnerability and accelerated the retirement of the world's only supersonic passenger aircraft.
July 25, 2000
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