More than a dozen years after the July 2000 crash of an Air France Concorde supersonic transport (SST) outside Paris, a French court will decide today whether to uphold a manslaughter conviction against Continental Airlines.
The original ruling, which was appealed, held that a Continental mechanic improperly attached a metal strip to one of the airline’s DC-10s and the strip fell off on the runway at Charles de Gaulle Airport.
