Air France Flight 4590 was supposed to be a luxury Concorde trip from Paris to New York, carrying passengers toward a once-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 ...

On July 25, 2000, Air France flight 4590 was travelling from Paris to New York City when it crashed into a hotel in Gonesse, France, killing 113 people. All 100 passenger and nine crew members aboard ...

The Concorde was once the peak of cutting-edge aircraft design and a status symbol for the world's elite travelers. But the horrific 2000 crash of flight 4590 marked a turning point for this iconic ...

This is part of a special series where NPR looks back at our coverage of major news stories in the past. Listen to the full audio story to hear NPR's archival audio. There was a time when you could ...

Fred Finn is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the world's most traveled air passenger. The 83-year-old has accumulated more than 15 million miles, and documented each of his many ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Concorde’s death reads like a soap opera. The Concorde was many things. Innovative and supersonic, it held numerous commercial airline speed records and was the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I went on board two Concordes, including the first prototype, at Paris's air and space museum. Concorde, retired in 2003 due to ...