Air France officials Thursday acknowledged the airline had not made a design change intended to reduce the chance that tire blowouts on the Concorde would damage the supersonic aircraft. British ...

The Concorde was once the peak of cutting-edge aircraft design and a status symbol for the world's elite travelers. But the horrific 2000 crash of flight 4590 marked a turning point for this iconic ...

The famous plane was heading from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport to New York and ploughed into a hotel in the small town of Gonesse, just one minute 17 seconds after its pilot was told it was on ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: A confluence of factors rendered the Concorde unviable, accidents and market forces just to name a few. The Concorde was many things. Innovative and supersonic, it ...

As Air France is acquitted of manslaughter charges following a turbulent two-month trial into an Airbus crash that killed 228 passengers, the chilling final words of the pilot in charge of the flight ...

PONTOISE, France (CBS/AP) Ten years after 113 people died in a fiery crash of Air France's supersonic Concorde jet, a French court is putting Continental Airlines and two of its employees on trial for ...

In more than a quarter century of flying, the Concorde never lost a fight with speed. Sculpted and fitted with musclebound engines to spear the sound barrier, it was a fighter jet for the well heeled, ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Despite Concorde’s many achievements, it didn’t live long. The Concorde was many things. Innovative and supersonic, it held numerous commercial airline speed records and ...

A freak ‘single cause’ accident was blamed when an Air France Concorde crashed in flames last year. But a number of avoidable errors may have played a part in the disaster, writes David Rose It is an ...

A dozen years after the famed (or infamous) Concorde jet was retired as a loud, economic failure, the Aerion Corporation says it’s designed a supersonic jet that will be nearly as fast as the original ...