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  • ** FILE ** Air France Concorde Flight 4590 takes off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on July 25, 2000, with fire trailing from the engine on its left wing. The plane crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people aboard and four others on the ground. A decade later, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, a French court found Continental Airlines and a mechanic guilty in the crash. (AP Photo/Toshihiko Sato, File)

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  • In this photo taken June 16, 2010, John Kausner of Clarence Center, N.Y., left, who's 24-year-old daughter Ellyce died in the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in Feb. 2009, talks to Jeffrey Smisek, right, Continental Airlines President and CEO, to request his support for new airline safety provisions outside a congressional committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congress is on the verge of passing far-reaching airline safety legislation, and a lot of the credit goes to the families and friends of the 50 people died in the Flight 3407 crash more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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  • Families of victims of the Concorde supersonic jet crash lay flowers at the site of the crash in Gonesse, France, a northern suburb of Paris, on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The relatives gathered to mark the 10th anniversary of the disaster. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

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