31 December 1968 Concorde’s Soviet rival, the Tupolev Tu-144, took off for the first time from a runway to the side of the factory where it was built in Zhukovski, southeast of Moscow. The plane was ...

PARIS -- Air accident investigators have confirmed in a preliminary report published Thursday that a burst tyre set off the chain of events that caused an Air France Concorde to crash killing 113 ...

PONTOISE, France — A French court has found Continental Airlines, Inc. and one of its mechanics guilty of criminal wrongdoing in the crash of a supersonic Concorde jet outside Paris a decade ago that ...