re: #547 albusteve

Oh, there was a scew up. (from the same link)

In September 2005, Henri Perrier, the former head of the Concorde division at Aerospatiale, and Jacques Herubel, the Concorde chief engineer, came under investigation for negligence: a report stated that the company had more than 70 incidents involving Concorde tyres between 1979 and 2000, but had failed to take appropriate steps based upon these incidents.[14]

On 12 March 2008, Bernard Farret, a deputy prosecutor in Pontoise, outside Paris, asked judges to bring manslaughter charges against Continental Airlines and four individuals:

* John Taylor, a Continental mechanic
* Stanley Ford, a Continental maintenance manager
* Henri Perrier of Aerospatiale
* Claude Frantzen, a former employee of the French airline regulator.

Charges against Jacques Herubel were dropped.[15][16]

On 3 July 2008, confirmation of the trial, including Jacques Herubel, was published which is due to commence in 2009 and is expected to last two to three months.