On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, crashed in Gonesse, France, killing all 100 passengers and nine crew members on board as well as four people on the ground. This was the flight of a famous supersonic Concorde aircraft, of a British–French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner. In the 27 years history of Concorde flying, this was the only fatal accident. This accident is known to have taken place not because of any issues with this aircraft per say, but it happened owing to a metallic strip which had fallen from a flight which had taken off just before the take-off of this ill-fated aircraft. This strip punctured a tyre on Concorde aircraft leading to further complications and finally resulting in a crash. The Concorde commercial airliner took its first flight in 1969, and was in service from 1976 to 2003.
