This is a film about the rise and fall of the world’s first supersonic passenger jet – Concorde. From the moment that it hit the skies in 1969, Concorde was instantly iconic. Considered the thoroughbred of aircraft, it flew the rich and famous across the Atlantic in just 3 hours and forty-five minutes – with an impeccable safety record. Until, on July 25th 2000, a freak chain of events just outside Paris caused a catastrophic accident: Concorde’s first fatality in 27 years of service killed 115 people and those devastating 120 seconds of flight marked the end of the supersonic era.
