From news Tue Jul 25 17:28:29 2000 Path: ditka!news.mv.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.shore.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners,misc.transport.air-industry Approved: mtai-admin@ckdhr.com Subject: Air France Concorde crashes after departing Paris CDG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Helen Rose Message-ID: Organization: Support DNS LOC! X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.6.44/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Date: 25 Jul 2000 15:57:48 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.192.160.22 X-Trace: news.shore.net 964555073 209.192.160.22 (Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:57:53 EDT) An Air France Concorde (unknown registration number) crashed after departing Paris CDG en route to New York Kennedy. AF4590 was on a charter flight, and it was full with 100 passengers (who were on a with a tour group from Germany), 9 crew (3 cockpit, 6 cabin). All aboard perished, as did four on the ground. A dozen more on the ground were injured. The usual eyewitness reports have surfaced about the plane being alight before crashing (which appear to be correct, at least from the photos that I have viewed). Other reports said the plane had trouble gaining altitude. More information is available on http://www.cnn.com/ (including some horrifying photographs) and http://www.itn.co.uk/ If anybody has more information to contribute, including good sources of news, please do so. --Helen