2000 Concorde crash: Airline, others stand trial

United States Continental Airline and five people will stand trial over the 2000 Concorde crash near Paris which killed 113 people.

According to French Judicial officials, the five people are two employees of Continental Airlines, two from Concorde maker Aerospatiale and one from France’s civil aviation Authority.

The trial, expected to take place in 2009, could last two to three months.

The plane caught fire after its tyres were punctured by a piece of metal on the runway from a Continental plane.