On July 25, 2000, Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport en route to New York City, resulting in the deaths of all 109 people on board and four individuals on the ground. The accident occurred when the aircraft ran over a metal strip that had fallen onto the runway from a preceding aircraft, causing a tire to burst. Debris from the tire punctured a fuel tank, igniting a fire that led to engine failure and th