No.4 HAMILTON PLACE
National Aerospace Library 
A French appeals court has cleared US carrier Continental Airlines from blame for the crash of the Air France Concorde in 2000 and has dropped a manslaughter conviction on Continental mechanic John Taylor.
The ruling came after an appeal from Continental against a ruling from a previous French court which gave Taylor a 15-month suspended sentence and fined Continental Euro 200,000 to the court and Euro 1m to Air France after ruling that the Concorde crash was caused by a small strip of metal which fell off a Continental aircraft.
