Last Days of the Concorde

Last Days of the Concorde: The Crash of Flight 4590 and the End of Supersonic Passenger Travel by Samme Chittum. Using the 2000 crash of the Air France Concorde outside Paris, the author tells the story not just of the crash but of super sonic flight, the develop of the Concorde as the only super sonic passenger carrier ever developed and of the end of Concorde as a passenger plane in 2003. This is partly a detective story and he traces the processes that the investigators used to figure out the reason for the crash that filled over 100 people and that was the beginning of the end for Concorde. But it also is the story of a much loved and admired airplane that was a national symbol of pride for both Britain and France.