The Concorde flight AF4590 burst into flames and smashed into a motel near the town of Gonesse, about 10 miles north of Paris after take off from Charles De Gaulle airport, on July 25, 2000 at about 4.44pm local time.
Air France stopped flying the supersonic jets in 2003.
All 109 people on board the Air France flight as well as four people on the ground were killed. All but four of the passengers were German tourists heading to New York to join a luxury cruise to the Caribbean. There was one Briton on board. Nine French crew members also died.
The US airline Continental is to appeal against a French court judgment ruling that it was to blame for the crash of an Air France Concorde over a Parisian suburb more than 10 years ago.
A titanium strip allegedly fell off a Continental DC-10 which took off just before the Concorde. Judicial investigators say the strip was improperly installed on the DC-10 engine, prompting the charges against the airline, Ford and Taylor.
The French court agreed, ruling that Continental Airlines and one of its mechanics were guilty of involuntary homicide concerning the deaths of 100 passengers, nine crew, and four people on the ground.
People found to be guilty:
John Taylor, 42, a mechanic who installed the titanium strip was fined €2,000 and given a suspended 15-month prison sentence. His supervisor
Stanley Ford, who was accused of approving the work without checking it, was acquitted.
Henri Perrier, 81, a French Aérospatiale executive, and two other French officials, Jacques Hérubel and Claude Frantzen, formerly who certified the jet's airworthiness.
Perrier, who was head of the Concorde programme at Aérospatiale had been accused of ignoring warnings about the safety of the aircraft during its 27 years in service after a string of incidents involving exploding Concorde tyres.
An investigation shows that a tire under the left wing blew on during take off. it struck the small strip of titanium on the runway.
The blown tire sent debris into the wing, causing the fuel tank to rupture and sparking the catastrophic fire that led to the crash.
