Concorde crash trial verdict due in December


Relatives of the 113 people killed in the 2000 Concorde crash close to Paris will have to wait until December 6 for a decision in the test that ended in France on Friday.

AFP - The trial over the Concorde collide that killed 113 people in Paris in 2000 ended on Friday after four months and the French court said it would give a decision on December 6.

A lawyer for US Company Continental Airlines gave his closing arguments on the last day of the trial, which seeks to found who was to blame for the crash, in which most of those killed were German passenger.

Continental is the main defendant along with two of its employees and three French previous aviation officials.

Prosecutors have called for a two-year suspended jail term for engineer Henri Perrier, a past director of the Concorde programmer, and a 175,000-euro (220,000-dollar) fine against Continental Airlines.

They cite experts who said the Concorde was brought down by a strip of metal on the landing strip that had fallen off a Continental jet that took off just previous to the Concorde.

They also called for 18-month balanced sentences against two of Continental's US employees -- John Taylor, a mechanic who supposedly fitted the non-standard strip, and airline chief of preservation Stanley Ford.

Continental has maintained the Concorde caught fire earlier than hitting the metal strip from its aircraft.

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