Name: Mayday
Genre: Documentary

Mayday Episode 14.03 Concorde, Up in Flames (Air France Flight 4590)

Mayday Episode 14.03 Concorde, Up in Flames (Air France Flight 4590)

Episode Premiere

January 19, 2015

Genre

Documentary

Production Company

Cineflix Productions

Official Site

http://www.discovery.ca/Shows/Mayday

Information

Episode Premiere

January 19, 2015

Genre

Documentary

Period

2003 -

Production Co

Cineflix Productions

Distributor

Official Site

http://www.discovery.ca/Shows/Mayday

Cast and Crew

Director

Michael Sinyi

Screenwriter

Christine Alexiou

Main Cast

Stephen Bogaert

Additional Cast

Jeff Gruen
Dwayne Bryshun
Cory Cooper
Mark Caven
Brian J. Graham

Synopsis

On 25 July 2000, a Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 en route to New York City, USA, stalls and crashes into a hotel in Gonesse shorty after take off from Charles de Gaulle International Airport. The plane had struck foreign debris from a Continental Airlines DC-10 causing the plane's fuel tanks to ignite and the engines to fail. All of the 109 passengers and crew die in the incident and 4 on the ground.