Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The closest I’ve ever been to being on a supersonic flight was looking at the Concorde on static display at the Intrepid Museum in ...

Of all the commercial aircraft that have been in operation since the beginning days of flight technology, the Concorde stands alone as the fastest and longest-serving supersonic airliner. The aircraft ...

HOUSTON — A French court Monday found Continental Airlines and one of its mechanics criminally responsible for the 2000 crash of an Air France Concorde jet, a ruling Continental vowed to appeal. The ...

A court has finally begun to decide who was to blame for Air France's 2000 Concorde crash, an accident that killed 113 people and hastened the end of the world's only supersonic airliner. The trial in ...

The author and the two Concordes in Paris's Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace.Pete Syme/BI Commercial flights faster than the speed of sound are one of the few historic innovations that have fallen out of ...

July 25 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1909, French pioneer aviator Louis Bleriot became the first person to fly a "heavier-than-air machine" across the English Channel. It took him 36 minutes.

The Concorde crash was caused by a "chain of errors," including dispatching an overweight aircraft with a dangerously aft center of gravity and a critical maintenance oversight (a missing landing gear ...

PARIS - After 10 years of legal wrangling, a French court ruled Monday that Continental Airlines was responsible for the spectacular crash of an Air France Concorde that killed 113 people and ...

PONTOISE, France (Reuters) - A French court Monday found Continental Airlines and a mechanic at the U.S. airline guilty of involuntary manslaughter for their part in the 2000 Concorde crash, in a ...