The Concorde Crash
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?
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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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