Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Airliner Concord on a first flight in six years.

Supersonic airliner Concorde undertake its first flight in six years, said on Tuesday Agence France-Presse. The flight will take place at the initiative of the Paris Museum of Aviation and space and will last two hours.
Concord rises into the air at the air show in Le Bourget, which will take place from 15 to 21 June, and this flight will be the first since November 2003. According to the agency representative of the museum, on board the aircraft will be 50 passengers, which will select by lot, as well as pilots. Ticket price has not yet been determined.
As expected, shortly after the first flight will take place and the second: the French authorities have given permission for the use of "Concord" for a demonstration flight. According to the museum, the aircraft, which rises into the air, ready to fly despite the fact that six years have not left the hangar.
One of the reasons for rejection of Concord, who used to regular flights in 1976, became the crash, occurred in France in July 2000: on takeoff and the plane caught fire after a few minutes of flight fell to the ground, killing 113 people, including all on board and four people on earth.
In summer 2007, the case of a plane crash "Concord" was referred to the court. As the defendants in the case are the airline Continental Airlines, two of its employees, and fellow aircraft group EADS and the representative of the National Directorate of Civil Aviation of France.

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