Air France Concorde crash

25 July 2000: Air France Concorde flight 4590 takes off with fire trailing from its engine on the left wing at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. The plane crashed shortly after take-off, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground. For nearly a decade investigators have argued that a Continental Airlines DC-10 dropped a piece of titanium on to the runway minutes beforehand that ruptured a tyre and caused a fuel tank to burst
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Flames trail from the Concorde seconds before it crashed in Gonesse near Paris Roissy airport
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The crash scene in Gonesse
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Aerial view of the crash scene
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Firefighters wet down the wreckage
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One of the engines of the crashed Concorde
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Firefighters amid debris of the hotel that the Concorde crashed into
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Two pictures released by the French accident investigation bureau: (top) the Concorde's burst left-hand front tyre and (bottom) a 43cm (17in) piece of metal found on runway '26 right' of Charles de Gaulle airport. The metal strip was not part of the Concorde
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Air France pilots and staff wait outside the Madelaine cathedral in Paris on 27 July 2000 at a memorial service for the 113 victims
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The cover of Newsweek International for the week of 2 August 2000
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