PONTOISE, France – A French court has rejected defense requests to call off a long-awaited trial on the deadly crash of a Concorde supersonic jet.
French court upholds Concorde crash trialPosted by Yahoo! News
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
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Judges, from left, Lise Duquet, Francoise Bazet, court president Dominique Andreassier and Claire Estevenet
are seen at the start of the trial of the Air France Concorde crash in Pontoise, north of Paris, Tuesday,
Feb. 2, 2010. A French court began probing who is to blame for Air France's 2000 Concorde crash,
an accident that killed 113 people and foreshadowed the end of the elegant jet that traveled at supersonic
speeds. The trial could last four months as the court debates responsibility for the July 25, 2000 crash of
the jet, which plunged into a hotel minutes after takeoff.
(AP Photo/Francois Mori)
PONTOISE, France – A French court has rejected defense requests to call off a long-awaited trial on the deadly crash of a Concorde supersonic jet.
The decision came Wednesday, on the second day of the trial over who was responsible for the Air France Concorde crash that killed 113 people in 2000.
Continental Airlines, Inc. had argued that the trial should be called off because the indictment did not provide counterweights to accusations against the defendants, as is required.
Investigators say the crash, which came shortly after the plane's takeoff from Paris, was triggered by a metal strip on the runway that had fallen from a Continental DC-10 plane. The U.S. carrier rejects the claim.
Continental, two of its employees and three French aviation officials are accused of manslaughter in the trial.News Link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_france_concorde_crashNvdXJ0dQ-- 
