I Survived The Concorde Crash

Alice was staying in a French hotel when Concorde Flight ț 4590 crashed into it, killing 113 people…

- Caren Clark, Hannah Davies

On 25 July 2000, Alice Brooking had just checked into a hotel in the French village of Gonesse, just outside Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport. As a concert tour manager, she was there meeting a youth orchestra. But at 4.45 pm the hotel was rocked by a huge explosion. Concorde Flight 4590, en route to New York City, had crashed just two minutes after take off.