So these are plane crashes from around the world, but it's only for the countries that had a true crime case, if you don't see a plane crash in here, check my True crime from around the world book.
Warning, this book contains plane crashes and video...
These plane crashes take us to the European country of France, which is located next to the following countries: Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Andorra and Spain.
WARNINGS OF PLANE CRASHES
Number one- Crash of Air France Flight 4590
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Pictured above is the accident aircraft on takeoff before it crashed, yes this is a real photo.
On the 25th of July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, registered as Foxtrot- Bravo Tango Sierra Charlie (F-BTSC), was a Concorde passenger jet on an international charter flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport (IATA: CDG, ICAO: LFPG), Paris to John F. Kennedy International Airport (IATA: JFK, ICAO: KJFK), New York, that crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris, the crash killed all 109 people on board the plane and it killed a further 4 people on the ground (113 in total), it was the only fatal Concorde accident during it's 27 year operational history, the Concorde was retired in 2003.
At 16:42pm local time (14:42 UTC), the Concorde ran over a piece of engine cowling from a DC-10, which departed before the Concorde, during it's takeoff run, the debris cut the right front tyre (tyre No.2) and it sent a large chunk of tyre debris (4.5 kilograms) into the underside of the left wing at an estimated speed of 500 kilometres per hour, the tyre debris didn't directly puncture any of the fuel tanks, but it sent out a pressure shockwave that ruptured the number 5 fuel tank at it's weakest point, which was just above the landing gear, engines number 1 and engine number 2 both surged and lost all power, and engine number 1 slowly recovered over the next few seconds, a large plume of flames developed, the flight engineer shut down the number two engine in response to the fire warning, the aircraft passed V1 (the point of no return) and the plane had to take off, the plane didn't gain enough airspeed with the three remaining engines, as damage to the landing gear bay door prevented the retraction of the landing gear, the airspeed decreased during the course of the brief flight, the fire damaged the inner elevators of the left wing, which started to disintegrate, which was getting melted by the high temperatures of the fire, engine number 1 surged again, but it didn't recover and the right wing got lifted due to the asymmetrical thrust, which caused the aircraft to bank over 100 degrees to the left, the crew reduced the power on engine number 3 and engine number 4 in an attempt to level the aircraft but they lost control due to the deceleration and the aircraft stalled and crashed into Hôtelissimo Les Relais Bleus Hotel.
The summary of the crash was Crashed following debris strike and in-flight fire.
Below is a video which explains what happened to the flight, video credit goes to The Flight Channel on Youtube.
