On 15 September 2015 , Club Concorde announced it had secured over £ 160 million to return an aircraft to service . Club Concorde President Paul James said : The organisation aims to buy the Concorde currently on display at Le Bourget airport . A tentative date of 2019 has been put forward for the return to flight — 50 years after its maiden journey . However , due to regulatory and technical hurdles , some of the aviation community are highly skeptical of the plan , including former Concorde captain and Club Concorde co-founder William " Jock " Lowe , who was quoted in June 2016 saying : On 25 July 2000 , Air France Flight 4590 , registration F-BTSC , crashed in Gonesse , France after departing from Paris-Charles de Gaulle en route to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City , killing all 100 passengers and 9 crew members on board the flight , and 4 people on the ground . It was the only fatal accident involving Concorde
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Air France Flight 4590
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