There were 57 instances of Concorde planes suffering burst or punctured tyres before last July's Air France crash, according to an interim report by accident investigators. Of these incidents ...

The Civil Aviation Authority and its French equivalent the DGAC made a joint decision to allow the plane to return to the skies more than a year after an Air France Concorde crashed near Paris ...

Moment 'new Concorde' prototype breaks the sound barrier on test flight During the test flight, the aircraft reached an altitude of 34,000ft before accelerating to above Mach 1.0 speed, which is ...

On July 25, 2000, an Air France Concorde crashed 60 seconds after taking off from Paris en route to New York killing 109 passengers and four ground staff. The last commercial Concorde flight took ...

A deadly crash more than two decades ago hastened the jet's demise. On July 25, 2000, an Air France Concorde crashed into a hotel and exploded shortly after takeoff in Paris, killing all 109 ...

Passenger numbers also fell after an Air France Concorde crashed just minutes after taking off from Paris in July 2000. The disaster killed all 109 people on board and four others on the ground.

A prototype of a passenger jet meant to succeed Concorde will attempt to break the sound barrier for the first time on Tuesday. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator is set to exceed Mach 1 (770 mph) in ...