A French judge placed Continental Airlines under judicial investigation today over its role in the Concorde crash near Paris which killed 113 people in 2000, the company's lawyer said.
"The company Continental Airlines has been placed under judicial investigation as a legal entity in a case which will be relatively long," lawyer Olivier Metzner told reporters at a tribunal in Cergy-Pontoise, just outside Paris.
A judicial investigation is normally a first step towards eventual criminal charges under French law. The US airline has denied responsibility.
