Paris - The head of the team investigating July's crash of a Concorde outside Paris which killed 113 people said yesterday it was now sure the accident was caused by a metal strip from a Continental Airlines DC-10 found on the runway at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport.
"The technical investigators - my team - are now certain, yes, that the strip did indeed fall from that plane," said Mr Paul-Louis Arslanian on France-Inter radio.
Continental Airlines have said that a piece of metal similar to one found on the runway was missing from a DC-10 that took off shortly before the Concorde.
