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The fatal accident that retired the Concorde airplane

24 years after the tragedy in France in which 113 people lost their lives -VIDEO

About 100 passengers, nine crewmembers (including two pilots and six flight attendants) and four people on the ground in a hotel had died. This is the death toll of the accident involving the Concorde plane (registration F-BTSC) operated by the Air France company, which on 25 July 2000 crashed into the ground immediately after take-off from the runway of the "Charles de Gaulle" international airport...

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Paris, France, 07/25/2024 09:03
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