Seconds from Disaster

National Geographic Channel

4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Monday 1 July

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The Concorde tragedy in 2000, when the supersonic aircraft burst into flames 60 seconds after taking off from Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport, claiming the lives of 109 passengers and crew and killing four people in a hotel on the ground. The crash was caused by a metal strip that fell from an earlier flight, and led in part to the withdrawal of the aircraft from service