• On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde passenger jet on an international charter flight from Paris to New York, crashed shortly after takeoff...
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  • Christian Marty (category Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in France)
    Marty (12 November 1945 – 25 July 2000) was a French pilot who served as the captain of Air France Flight 4590. Prior to the crash, Marty was an athlete in...
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  • Armstrong, Paul (4 July 2012). "Has Air France Flight 447 mystery finally been solved?". CNN. "Air France Flight 4590". 18 July 2023. Rocher, Alexis (October...
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    Concorde (category Air France–KLM)
    cancelled in 1971 before any prototypes were built. On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590 crashed shortly after take-off with all 109 occupants and four on...
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    Concorde aircraft histories (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    another was destroyed in the Air France Flight 4590 crash in 2000. The two prototype aircraft were used to expand the flight envelope of the aircraft as...
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    Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 – a 1991 crash caused by a similar landing gear fire Air France Flight 4590 – a 2000 crash caused by an in-flight fire triggered...
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  • DC-4-fleet". www.rzjets.net. "Modern Air Convair CV-990A in Air France colours on stand at London Heathrow (photo)". Flight International: 656. 27 April 1967...
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  • that would become Air France Flight 4590 Aviation Safety Network: Description of the accident involving F-BTSC (Air France Flight 4590) "On the Celluloid...
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    In aviation, an in-flight fire is a type of aviation accident where an aircraft catches on fire in-flight. They are considered one of the most dangerous...
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  • official investigation found that Flight 55 (a Continental DC-10) caused the crash of Air France Concorde Flight 4590 in Paris. The DC-10 dropped a strip...
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  • A similar flight was planned for the 21 June 2001 solar eclipse, but was cancelled after the 2000 plane crash of Air France Flight 4590. Airborne eclipse...
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  • Beechcraft and the only pilot on the Cessna died. 25 July 2000 - Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde, was on its take-off roll when it ran over a metal strip...
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  • the Air France Flight 4590 disaster, which had a fatality count of 113 people (100 passengers, 9 crew and 4 people on the ground). 17 March 1982 Air France...
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    on the Concorde tyres were a significant factor in the loss of Air France Flight 4590. Tests of airliner aircraft tires have shown that they are able...
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    encountered in flight (e.g. hail and dust). Such items can damage engines and other parts of the aircraft. In 2000, Air France Flight 4590 crashed after...
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  • produced by Cineflix that recounts air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings, and other mainly flight-related disasters and crises. It reveals...
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  • Rudi Faßnacht (category Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in France)
    July 25, 2000, Faßnacht and his wife were among the passengers on Air France Flight 4590 with 109 people on board, a Concorde which crashed into the Hôtelissimo...
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  • Alain Bouillard (category Aviation safety in France)
    the chief investigator for the 2000 Concorde crash (Air France Flight 4590) and the Air France Flight 447 incident. He was the Director of Security Investigations...
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    uncontained engine failure caused by a birdstrike. On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590 attempted to divert to Le Bourget before it crashed shortly after...
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    Supersonic transport (category French inventions)
    approximately £1 billion, with revenues of £1.75 billion. On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590 crashed shortly after take-off with all 109 occupants and four on...
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    at Charles de Gaulle Airport upon takeoff. Minutes later, Air France Flight 4590, operated by a Concorde, ran over the metal strip at high speed, bursting...
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    of control Air France Flight 4590 - A 2000 Concorde crash caused by an in-flight fire triggered by tire burst on takeoff Swissair Flight 306 - A 1963...
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    Aircraft in fiction (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    twenty-one years later as Air France Flight 4590, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground. In the 1982 serial "Time-Flight" of the BBC sci-fi...
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    Air France Flight 4590 was initiated by a piece of titanium alloy, dropped from a DC-10, on the runway. The metal debris ruptured a tire of the Air France...
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  • Benjamin de Rothschild (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
    (Air France Flight 4590) and commissioned an artist to turn it into a work of art. His family wealth ranked 22nd on Challenges' 2019 list of French fortunes...
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  • other nine episodes aired from November 5, 2012 in Australia with the episode "Jonestown Cult Suicide". Episode 1, "Chopper Down", aired on 15 February 2018...
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    Network. 3 May 2006. Retrieved 27 May 2013. "ASN Accident Description (Air France-4590)". Aviation Safety Network. 25 July 2000. Retrieved 27 May 2013. "Accident...
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  • Christian Götz (category Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in France)
    volumes of aphorisms. Götz and his wife were killed in the crash of Air France Flight 4590 on 25 July 2000 near Paris. 1993: Order of Merit of the Federal...
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    were also featured in this episode: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, ALM Flight 980, and Pan Am Flight 6. Originally run on MSNBC, each episode was narrated...
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  • causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth. July 25: Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes in France, killing 113 including all people aboard. August 12: Russian...
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