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Marking 25 Years Since the Concorde Tragedy: Remembering Flight 4590
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The Concorde Association of Professionals commemorated this Friday afternoon in Mitry-Mory (Seine-et-Marne), the air disaster that killed 113 people on 25 July 2000, including four in a hotel in Gonesse (Val-d-Oise), and signed the end of the supersonic.
25 years after the Concorde crash, the former workforce with relatives of the victims in Paris commemorates. 113 people were killed in the accident, most of them from North Rhine-Westphalia.
In three and a half hours from Paris to New York: The Concorde stood for the belief in progress. But then a supersonic plane explodes in flames only two minutes after the take-off. On the 25th anniversary of the crash, members of the crew from that time come together.
On July 25, 2000, a jet crashed just after taking off from Paris, and supersonic passenger transport never really recovered.
25 years ago, the fastest and most beautiful airliner crashed. It was the provisional end of a dream – and the supersonic era.
The supersonic Concorde remains the only one of its kind. In the United States, Boom Supersonic is working on Overture, a "baby Concorde." Fifteen were ordered in June. "First, America needs to lift the ban on supersonic flight over land."
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