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Old 5th Feb 2010, 15:31
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AliB
 
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I do not speak French so could someone please verify the above by reading this link.
Using Google translate I get the following - did you get the correct link or is your French worse than you think?

"Ten years after the crash of a Concorde which precipitated the end of the career of the supersonic, the trial of this matter lies before the Correctional Tribunal of Pontoise. The court will try for four months to establish the chain of events and responsibilities.


90 volumes, 80 000 pages of proceedings, 534 exhibits, 60 witnesses, some thirty experts, debates in three languages and more than 200 journalists covering the event: the extraordinary trial of the Concorde crash was open this Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at Pontoise, in the Val-d'Oise.

During the hearings, scheduled until May 28 next justice will try to understand why this gem of Aeronautics, capable of crossing the Atlantic in less than three hours, crashed on July 25, 2000, a hotel in Gonesse, less than two minutes after takeoff. For despite years of investigation, the causes of the disaster that killed 100 German passengers, 9 crew and 4 employees of the hotel establishment where the supersonic crashed to continue discussions.

According to the script prepared by the Office of Investigations and Analysis (BEA), reprinted by the order of reference, a strip of titanium lost by a DC-10 of Continental Airlines would have caused the bursting of a tire, which debris have caused the burning of fuel tank of Concorde taking off. But for the U.S. airline - on the defendants' bench with two technicians and two former officials of the Concorde program and an engineer from the Directorate General Aviation"
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