Gonesse

It does appear that there was this crash that happened, oh, just about 50 minutes or so ago as the Concorde that was due to take off for New York crashed shortly after takeoff at a location, at Gonesse, which is to the north of Paris, as is, indeed, the Charles de Gaulle Airport itself.

CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Air France Concorde Jet Crashes Near Paris; All 109 Aboard Dead - July 25, 2000 2000

It crashed in a suburb north of Paris, a suburb known as Gonesse, into a hotel, Le Raleigh Bleu hotel.

CNN Transcript - Breaking News: All 109 Aboard Dead in Concorde Crash into Hotel Near Paris; 4 On Ground Dead - July 25, 2000 2000

Peter, again, this is a suburb known as Gonesse, and is this, as you know, the area, typical, some development but then some open fields too?

CNN Transcript - Breaking News: All 109 Aboard Dead in Concorde Crash into Hotel Near Paris; 4 On Ground Dead - July 25, 2000 2000

We also saw some pictures of police and some of the rescue services in the area that in Gonesse, which is close to Charles de Gaulle Airport to the north of Paris.

CNN Transcript - Breaking News: All 109 Aboard Dead in Concorde Crash into Hotel Near Paris; 4 On Ground Dead - July 25, 2000 2000

Air France will buy the 1.2 acre plot in the town of Gonesse, near the Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, in agreement with the victim's families, to create a memorial, said spokeswoman Brigitte Barrand .

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Joachim Bertrand/AFP/Getty Images The site in Gonesse, near Paris, where an Air France Concorde crashed on July 25, 2000, killing 113 people.

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The judges said that would help compensate the French national carrier for payments made to the victims and for the deterioration of its image after the needle-nosed aircraft caught fire on takeoff and plowed into a hotel at Gonesse near Charles de Gaulle International Airport in July 2000.

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Despite the glamour, it was retired by Air France and British Airways in 2003, not only because of bad publicity generated by the Gonesse crash, but also because fuel consumption and ticket prices made it commercially unviable without government subsidies.

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Matei Liska, a security guard from Gonesse, a town north of Paris, normally rents an apartment in the country for his summer vacation.

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Willy Corenthin, 29, a local electrician, heard the roar and saw the takeoff from his car on local highway 902, between the airport and Gonesse.

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