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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/airline-blamed-for-concorde-crash.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A French court has found Continental Airlines and one of its mechanics guilty of causing a Concorde crash in France in 2000" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-airline-blamed-for-concorde-crash.jpg" alt="A French court has found Continental Airlines and one of its mechanics guilty of causing a Concorde crash in France in 2000"/></a></p>
<p>US airline Continental and one of its mechanics have been convicted of causing the Air France Concorde crash that killed 113 people 10 years ago.</p>
<p>The airline was ordered to pay Air France £914,000 for damaging its reputation, and fined £170,000.</p>
<p>The presiding judge ruled Continental and its employee were guilty of criminal negligence, confirming investigators&#8217; long-held belief that titanium debris dropped by a Continental DC-10 onto the runway at Charles de Gaulle airport was to blame.</p>
<p>The debris cut the Concorde&#8217;s tyre, propelling bits of rubber into the fuel tanks and starting a fire.</p>
<p>The plane then slammed into a nearby hotel, killing all 109 people aboard and four others on the ground. Most of the victims were German tourists.</p>
<p>Ronald Schmid, a lawyer who has represented several of their families , said he was &#8220;sceptical&#8221; about the ruling.</p>
<p>The airline and mechanic John Taylor were also ordered to jointly pay more than £230,000 in damages to different civil parties.</p>
<p>Taylor was also given a 15-month suspended prison sentence, and a £1,700 fine. All other defendants &#8211; including three former French officials and Taylor&#8217;s now-retired supervisor Stanley Ford &#8211; were acquitted.</p>
<p>The court said Taylor should not have used titanium, a harder metal than usual, to build the wear strip that fell off the DC-10. He was also accused of improperly installing the piece that fell onto the runway on July 25, 2000,.</p>
<p>Continental&#8217;s lawyer, Olivier Metzner, confirmed the airline would appeal. He denounced a ruling that he called &#8220;patriotic&#8221; for sparing the French defendants and convicting only the Americans.</p>
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