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The aircraft was usually referred to by the British as simply "Concorde". [202] In France it was known as "le Concorde" due to "le", the definite article, [203] used in French grammar to introduce the name of a ship or aircraft, [204] and the capital being used to distinguish a proper name from a common noun of the same spelling.
The official handover ceremony of British Airways' first Concorde occurred on 15 January 1976 at Heathrow Airport. Air France Concorde (F-BTSC) at Charles de Gaulle Airport on 25 July 1975, exactly 25 years before the accident in 2000 British Airways Concorde in Singapore Airlines livery at Heathrow Airport in 1979 Air France Concorde (F-BTSD) with a short-lived promotional Pepsi livery in ...
First officer Jean Marcot (50), who had been with Air France since 1971 and had 10,035 flight hours, with 2,698 of them on the Concorde. He had also flown the Aérospatiale N 262, Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris, Sud Aviation Caravelle and Airbus A300 aircraft. [3]: 19 Flight engineer Gilles Jardinaud (58), who had been with Air France since 1968 ...
Air France also had seven production aircraft in commercial service: F-BTSC (203) was the Concorde lost in the crash of Air France Flight 4590 on 25 July 2000 in the small town of Gonesse, France near Le Bourget, located just outside Paris, killing 113 people.
Opposition and route restrictions aside, the BOAC and Air France maintained plans to fly supersonic over "sparsely populated" regions such as the deserts of Africa, Saudi Arabia and Australia. Restricting supersonic flight to over water meant that when Concorde entered service in January 1976, the only routes it flew were London – Bahrain ...
He was the founder and first president for the Académie nationale de l'air et de l'espace (ANAE) in 1983. The Academy is known as Académie de l'Air et de l'Espace since 2007. He was present on board the Air France Concorde (F-BVFC) during its retirement flight, on 27 June 2003, to the Airbus plant at Toulouse, where the French aircraft was ...
Air France has been in operation since 1933. Its aircraft have been involved in a number of major accidents and incidents. The deadliest accident of the airline occurred on June 1, 2009, when Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330-203, flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean with 228 fatalities.
She moved to Air France in 1985, where she flew an Airbus A320 and a Boeing 747 before becoming qualified on Concorde, on 24 July 2000. [5] [6] She made her first commercial flight on 19 November 2001 and so became one of the two female Concorde pilots (with the Briton Barbara Harmer) and the first French female pilot on a supersonic airliner.