From time-to-time I have wondered what happened to the Concorde. You remember that plane that used to fly across the Atlantic really, really fast?I read in the Wall Street Journal today that a court case started this week in France regarding the crash of an Air France Concorde jet almost 10 years ago. The crash on July 25, 2000 killed all 109 people on board and 4 people on the ground. After this crash, combined with the economic effects from the events of 9/11 and other factors, operations ceased in 2003.
From 1969 to 2003, Concorde regularly flew transatlantic flights from Heathrow (London) and Charles de Gaulle (Paris) to JFK (NY) and Dulles (Washington). Its cruising speed was 1,320 mph. This compares to a cruising speed of 530 mph on a Boeing 767. There were only 20 aircraft ever built.
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