American Voices

The Concorde Crash

August 2, 2000 | ISSUE 36•26

On July 25, an Air France Concorde crashed during takeoff near Paris, killing 113 people, including 96 Germans. What do you think of this first-ever crash of the supersonic jet?

  • Man, that's more Germans than the French killed in WWII.

    Bill Ready
    Systems Analyst

  • They still have those Concordes? That's so cute. I thought they went the way of Evel Knievel's X-1 Skycycle.

    Jill Connelly
    Psychologist

  • I almost took that doomed Air France Concorde flight. Thank God, though, I chose instead to fly on Le Jette de Valu.

    Lynn Innis
    Homemaker

  • I took the Concorde from New York to London in the early '90s, and it wasn't all that great. Macaulay Culkin kept kicking my seat.

    Michael Kipp
    Landscaper

  • Man was not meant to break the sound barrier, and now we are paying mightily for our hubris.

    Robert Coleman
    Optometrist

  • I once crashed my dad's Chrysler Concorde, but I only killed, like, four people.

    Doug Dyer
    File Clerk

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