There were 57 instances of Concorde planes suffering burst or punctured tyres before last July's Air France crash, according to an interim report by accident investigators. Of these incidents ...

PARIS -- Air accident investigators have confirmed in a preliminary report published Thursday that a burst tyre set off the chain of events that caused an Air France Concorde to crash, killing 113 ...

One fact is certain: The 40-centimeter (16-inch) long metal plate did not come from the doomed Concorde ... the theory that fragments from a burst tire pierced the aircraft's undercarriage ...

PARIS -- A preliminary report into last month's Concorde ... 70 previous tyre bursts since entering service in 1976, seven of them rupturing fuel tanks in the wings. The crash shortly after ...

The offer came as an Air France Concorde was due to take off ... Airlines-owned DC10 may have caused the Concorde tyre burst that led to the crash. The fragments of the tyre flew up, rupturing ...