2000 World Events · Post-Cold War transition and asymmetric shock
Air France Concorde Flight 4590 crash
A Concorde crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris, killing everyone aboard and four people on the ground.
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What is stated, why it matters, and what remains uncertain
What this is
A specific-event record selected from the protected World Events source ledger for cross-year research. It is not an exhaustive account of 2000.
Why it matters
It accelerated the end of supersonic passenger flight and reshaped aviation safety rules.
What is established here
The page faithfully exposes the submitted record and its source boundary. No claim-level evidence packet has yet upgraded the record beyond a research starting point.
What remains uncertain
Starting-point source from the submitted dataset; verify exact dates, attribution, legal posture, casualty figures, and current status before reuse.
Record narrative
Source-bounded summary
A Concorde crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris, killing everyone aboard and four people on the ground.
It accelerated the end of supersonic passenger flight and reshaped aviation safety rules.
Structured fields
Record at a glance
- Stable record ID
- 2000-008
- Date or period
- 2000-07-25
- Type
- Aviation disaster
- Focus
- Infrastructure / safety
- Impact scope
- Continental
- Priority
- 3 of 5
- Location label
- Paris, France
- Coordinate precision
- City-level coordinate
- Actors named by the source record
- Air France; passengers; aviation regulators
- Verification state
- source-start-point; sensitive details require independent verification
Geographic context
A coordinate locator, not a surveyed event footprint
The submitted record supplies 48.8566, 2.3522 with the precision label “City-level coordinate.” Multi-location events, disputed borders, campaigns, and broad regions cannot be reduced to one point.
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This remains a starting-point record
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Citation and correction
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2IA — International Intelligence Archive. “Air France Concorde Flight 4590 crash.” World Events record 2000-008. Reviewed July 27, 2026. https://2ia.org/world-events/2000/2000-008/