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Air France Concorde flight 4590 takes off with fire trailing from its engine on the left wing from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on July 25, 2000. The plane crashed shortly after take-off, killing all the 109 people aboard and four others on the ground. The first word that something had gone terribly wrong with the Concorde came from the control tower which told the crew that they were trailing flames, according to a preliminary report made public Thursday, August 31, 2000 by French investigators probing the crash. A Japanese businessman took this photo from inside another plane while he was on a business trip and offered it to a Japanese newspaper after returning home early August. (Photo by Toshihiko Sato/AP Photo)
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