Continental Overturns Manslaughter Verdict on Concorde Crash
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Continental Airlines Inc. won a bid to overturn its manslaughter conviction for the deaths of 113 people in the crash of Air France’s Concorde supersonic jet 12 years ago.
The appeals court in Versailles, near Paris, reversed the 2010 guilty verdict in a ruling today, while holding the carrier and two employees civilly responsible for the crash and awarding Air France 1 million euros ($1.3 million) in damages. Judge Michele Luga also awarded victims payments worth hundreds of thousands of euros.