The 100 passengers boarded Air France’s 4590 flight from Charles de Gaulle in Paris to New York’s JFK Airport on the afternoon of July 25, 2000, believed that they were going to live their journey. While passengers enjoyed champagne and waiting for departure, three miles west of the airport, in the village of Gonesse, the staff of the Economic Hotel Hotelissimo Les Relais Bleus was working properly. For both pilots and flight engineer, as well as six cabin crew members, it was a regular mission. Although Concorde had never proved to be commercially successful on its scheduled flights to the US, Brazil or Venezuela, there was high demand for such charter flights. Five minutes before the ultrasonic aircraft started taking off on the 26R treadmill, a Continental Airlines DC-10 had lost a titanium strip from one of its engines when taking off from the same runway. As Independent reports, though she […]
Source: News Beast
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