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Mayday - Season 14 Episode 3 : Concorde, Up in Flames (Air France Flight 4590)

Jan 01, 1970 00:46:14m

274 votes

Documentary, Drama, Crime

Seasons and episodes

Episode List

Ep 1 Choosing Sides (British Midland Flight 92)

2015-01-05

Ep 2 Niki Lauda: Tragedy in the Air (Lauda Air Flight 004)

2015-01-12

Ep 3 Concorde, Up in Flames (Air France Flight 4590)

2015-01-19

Ep 4 The Death of JFK Jr (Piper PA-32R-301 Saratoga II)

2015-01-26

Ep 5 Vanishing Act (Varig Flight 254)

2015-02-10

Ep 6 Accident or Assasination (Mexican Interior Ministry Learjet 45)

2015-02-17

Ep 7 No Clear Options (Manx2 Flight 7100)

2015-02-26

Ep 8 What Happened to MA370 (Malaysia Airlines Flight 370)

2015-03-01

Ep 9 Sideswiped (Copa Airlines Flight 201)

2015-03-10

Ep 10 The Final Push (FedEx Express Flight 80 & FedEx Express Flight 14)

2015-03-17

Ep 11 Death in the Arctic (First Air Flight 6560)

2015-03-24

Synopsis

On 25 July 2000, a Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 en route to New York City, USA, stalls and crashes into a hotel in Gonesse shorty after take off from Charles de Gaulle International Airport. The plane had struck foreign debris from a Continental Airlines DC-10 causing the plane's fuel tanks to ignite and the engines to fail. All of the 109 passengers and crew die in the incident and 4 on the ground.