[Red Badger]

AVIATION PING!....................

[9422WMR]

I remember back in the 60’s, the jets training over Texas would make sonic booms that would rattle the single pane glass in my grandmas house! Good times!!

[Vigilanteman]

Then, tragedy struck. On July 25, 2000, Air France Flight 4590 crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris. The incident involved a tire bursting, a fuel tank puncturing, and a devastating fire erupting. All 109 on board and 4 on the ground perished.

As I recall, they were mostly German tourists. The macabre joke at the time is that the French killed more Germans with that SST flight than in the entire battle for France in 1940.