Concorde, Up in Flames (Air France Flight 4590) Mayday : Season 14 Episode 3
TV-14 National Geographic 45m int(0)
Aired: January 19th, 2015 @ 8:00 PM EST on National Geographic
On 25 July 2000, a Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 en route to New York City, USA, stalls and crashes into a hotel in Gonesse shorty after take off from Charles de Gaulle International Airport. The plane had struck foreign debris from a Continental Airlines DC-10 causing the plane's fuel tanks to ignite and the engines to fail. All of the 109 passengers and crew die in the incident and 4 on the ground.