Families of victims of Concorde supersonic jet crash mark 10 years since disaster

Gonesse, France: Families of those who died when a supersonic Concorde jet crashed on takeoff from Paris have gathered to mark the tenth anniversary of the disaster.

Air France officials gave flowers to some 100 family members, mostly from Germany, to lay at a monument to the dead in Gonesse, near Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Many of the 109 people aboard the plane who were killed were German.

The crash on July 25, 2000 also killed four people on the ground and devastated the reputation of the Concorde, which was capable of flying at twice the speed of sound. The Concorde program was discontinued in 2003.

After laying the flowers, the families wandered the field around the monument, which is made of transparent glass with a piece of an airplane wing jutting through it.