On 25 July 2000 , Air France Flight 4590 — a Concorde supersonic transport — crashed onto a hotel in the town after a tyre blew out , caused by running over a strip of metal that had fallen off a DC-10 at nearby Charles de Gaulle International Airport . The crash led to the deaths of all 109 people on board and four more on the ground . The Concorde crash occurred fewer than 6 km from Goussainville , the site of the crash of the supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 during the 1973 Paris Air Show
Air France Flight 4590
Air France Flight 4590
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