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07/25/2000 : Crash - UK
  An Air France Concorde flying to New York crashes outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 113 people on board and four people on the ground. More ...

07/23/2000 : : Cracks - UK
  British Airways discloses that cracks had been found in the wings of all seven of its Concorde jets. Air France makes a similar disclosure the following day, having found cracks in four of its six Concordes..

09/01/1990 : Concorde comes to Japan - Nagasaki
  Fifteen thousand people watch the first landing of a chartered Concorde on the off shore airport Onunra.

08/01/1990 : 40 000 hours of work were needed for the D check of Concorde - Roissy-CdG
  The patriarch gets along pretty well and is ready for a second life. Concorde number 5, registrated F-BVFA, is just coming out from a hangar the width of a cathedral where during one year she was in the hands of the men in charge of the D check.
Since her first flight on January 21 1976, she covered 20 millions of kilometers (10 800 000 nautical miles) first of the six french supersonics to enter in that big check. It`s an Herculean work which will require 40 000 hours time. It began in Orly where the plane has been cleaned off before being painted in khaki at Roissy to prevent corrosion. Put on jacks she has been entirely stripped down to her carcass. Everything has been passed to X-rays, 94 windows, 200 check doors, 13 tanks, in order to trace any crack which means weakness.

02/02/1989 : Plane of presidents - France
  President François Mitterrand, alike all french presidents since Georges Pompidou, love to board Concorde for their official trips out of France. The last one to India followed the line: bring afar the french knowledge.

12/02/1986 : Round the world for 20 800 dollars - Roissy-CdG
  Phileas Fogg, a character of the novel from Jules Verne has to make a round the world in 80 days playing with change of date while crossing meridian 180. Idea is even better aboard the only supersonic passenger plane flying so high in the sky you won`t never seen any other plane. Her first round the world trip has just ended in Roissy.
Captains Michel Ferry and Gérard Le Galès have brought their 94 passengers, at an average speed of 810 kts (1 500 km/h) on schedule, in a fantastic tour through New York, Auckland, Honolulu, Papeete, Sydney, Jakarta, Bangkok, Colombo, Bahreïn and back to Paris. The trip took 18 days, each stage giving opportunities for munificent festivities. Total flight time 31 h 51 mn from which 17 h 58 in supersonic. For a fare of 20 800 dollars (130 000 FF) you could get the kind of dream and unfamiliarity Concorde can offer.

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