VERSAILLES, France -- A French appeals court overturned manslaughter convictions against Continental Airlines and a mechanic for the July 2000 crash of an Air France Concorde that killed 113 ...

A French court convicted Continental Airlines in 2010 for the crash of the Air France Concorde; The appeals court ruled that mistakes by the company's mechanics didn't make it legally responsible ...

The crash marked the beginning of the end for the Concorde, which was a commercial dud despite its glamour, and which was retired in 2003 by its only two carriers, Air France and British Airways.

In the years after the Concorde crashed, both French aviation and judicial investigators concluded that the Continental DC-10's metal piece — known as a wear strip — gashed the Concorde's ...

The crash hastened the end for the already-faltering supersonic Concorde, synonymous with high-tech luxury but a commercial failure. The program, jointly operated by Air France and British Airways ...

U.S.aviation safety advocates welcomed Thursday's French appellate court ruling that overturned a manslaughter conviction against Continental Airlines in the July 2000 crash of the Concorde as a ...

VERSAILLES, France—In a surprise ruling in one of the most high-profile disasters in aviation history, a French appeals court Thursday overturned manslaughter convictions against Continental … ...

PARIS — A decade after a supersonic Concorde jet crashed in a fiery wreck outside Paris soon after takeoff, killing 113 people, a French court will rule Monday on who, if anyone, is to blame.

A French court convicted Continental Airlines and one of its mechanics in Texas of manslaughter on Monday for setting off a chain of events that sent a supersonic Concorde crashing into a hotel ...

French court overturns Concorde crash conviction . Originally published November 30, 2012 at 12:00 am Updated November 30, 2012 at 6:03 am . In a surprise ruling in one of the most high- profile ...

VERSAILLES, France - A French appeals court overturned manslaughter convictions against Houston's Continental Airlines and a mechanic for the July 2000 crash of an Air France Concorde that killed ...