Concorde entered service in 1969 as the world's only successful supersonic passenger jet, cutting the Atlantic crossing to three hours and forty-five minutes for a clientele of the rich and famous. The film traces that run from its debut through twenty-seven years of flying without a single fatality, an unmatched safety record for a plane pushing twice the speed of sound. It builds toward July 25, 2000, when a freak chain of mechanical failures just outside Paris brought down a Concorde flight, killing all 115 people aboard in roughly 120 seconds. That crash is treated as the hinge of the whole story: the first fatal accident in the aircraft's history became the event that ended it, grounding the fleet and closing out the supersonic era for good. The film moves between the engineering pride of Concorde's early years and the reconstruction of the crash itself, using the accident to explain why an aircraft with such a record never flew again.