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Concorde grounded

All Concorde flights were suspended this week after Britain鈥檚 Civil Aviation
Authority withdrew the plane鈥檚 airworthiness certificate. British Airways had
continued flying Concordes after last month鈥檚 crash in Paris, which killed 113
people. Last week, French accident investigators said that a piece of metal on
the runway had caused a burst tyre, scattering fragments weighing up to 4
kilograms. The next stage in the chain of events had 鈥測et to be determined鈥,
said the investigators.

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