Concorde Crash Trial Results Out
By Arnab Ghosh, Gaea News NetworkTuesday, December 7, 2010
PARIS, FRANCE (GaeaTimes.com)- Continental airlines has been held guilty of committing involuntary manslaughter in a Concorde supersonic plane crash which took place at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport nearly 10 years back. The crash which killed 113 people including the passengers of that ill fated aircraft shook the aviation industry and led to the closure of the Concorde service which was at that time possibly the most technologically advanced passenger aviation system. As per the ruling of the Paris Court Continental Airlines will have to churn out a 170,000 fine. Along with that amount it will also have to pay Air France a 850,000 compensation. The airlines will have to pay millions more in compensation, as it looks like.
John Taylor who used to work for Continental airlines at that time has been fined 1,700 along with a 1 year and three months suspended sentence for charges of involuntary manslaughter. A metal strip that had fallen from a DC 10 plane which belonged to Continental Airline was responsible for the accident. The strip got into the tyre of the Concorde that was taking off from Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport and added fir to its fuel tank. As a result the supersonic Concorde crashed into a hotel adjacent tote airport minutes after taking off. Air France which had to pay a lot of money in compensating the Victim’s families sued Continental Airlines later.
Concorde was inducted into Air France and British Airways at that time both of which decided to take off the fleet within few years after the fatal crash. Continental however has said it will appeal challenging this verdict.
