Concorde won the 2006 Great British Design Quest organised by the BBC and the Design Museum , beating other well-known designs such as the BMC Mini , the miniskirt , the Jaguar E-Type , the London Tube map and the Supermarine Spitfire . The type was retired in 2003 , three years after the crash of Air France Flight 4590 , in which all passengers and crew were killed . The general downturn in the commercial aviation industry after the September 11 attacks in 2001 and the end of maintenance support for Concorde by Airbus ( the successor company of both Aérospatiale and BAC ) also contributed
Air France Flight 4590
Air France Flight 4590
Concorde