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Mayday · S14E03

Concorde, Up in Flames (Air France Flight 4590)

Still from Mayday S14E03

Summary

On 25 July 2000, a Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 en route to New York City, USA, stalls and crashes into a hotel in Gonesse shorty after take off from Charles de Gaulle International Airport. The plane had struck foreign debris from a Continental Airlines DC-10 causing the plane's fuel tanks to ignite and the engines to fail. All of the 109 passengers and crew die in the incident and 4 on the ground.

Guest stars

  • Jeff Gruen as Captain Marty
  • Dwayne Bryshun as First Officer Marcot
  • Cory Cooper as Flight Engineer Jardinaud
  • Mark Caven as BEA Investigator Bouillard
  • Brian J. Graham as NTSB Investigator MacIntosh
  • Lawrence Cotton as French Investigator
  • Alain Patry as Air Traffic Controller Logelin
  • Gilles Logelin as Self