"We strongly disagree that anything Continental did was the
cause of the Concorde accident, and we are outraged by the media
reports that criminal charges may have been made against our
company and its employees."
Source: Continental Airlines statement after the
French newspaper Le Parisien reported a French court has subpoenaed
company executives as part of the Concorde crash investigation. On
July 25th, 2000, an Air France Concorde crashed shortly after
take-off, killing 113 people. A subsequent inquiry found a
Continental Airlines DC-10, which had departed the same runway five
minutes earlier, dropped a "wear-strip" from one of its engine
nacelles. That piece of metal, according to the inquiry, then
punctured the tires of the Concorde. French authorities say th