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May 21, 2010 / 4:20 PM

Prosecutors: No jail for ex-Concorde chief

A British Airway's Concorde is towed up the River Thames in London April 13, 2004, on a barge for its final journey to the National Museum of Flight in East Lothian, Scotland. (UPI Photo/Hugo Philpott)

A British Airway's Concorde is towed up the River Thames in London April 13, 2004, on a barge for its final journey to the National Museum of Flight in East Lothian, Scotland. (UPI Photo/Hugo Philpott) | License Photo

PARIS, May 21 (UPI) -- French prosecutors said Friday they are not seeking prison time for the man who headed the Concorde program for 16 years.

Henri Perrier, 80, is on trial for manslaughter for his part in a crash that killed 113 people near Paris in 2000, Expatica France reported.

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The accident occurred six years after his retirement from Aerospatiale, but he is accused of ignoring problems with the supersonic Concorde before the crash.

Prosecutors said they would ask for a two-year suspended sentence for Perrier and a $220,000 fine for Continental Airlines. The French investigation concluded a titanium strip that fell from a Continental plane that took off shortly before the Concorde triggered a series of events that ended in the crash.

The crash on July 25, 2000, killed 100 passengers, nine members of the crew and four people on the ground. It was the only crash in the Concorde's history, but its impact and the sharp drop in air travel after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States led British Airways and Air France to give up supersonic service.

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