Jacques Herubel is a former engineer for Concorde's parent company Aerospatiale. A French national, Herubel is one of five people charged with manslaughter in the year 2000 crash of Air France Concorde flight 4590.The Huffington Post: Airline Employees To Stand Trial For 2000 Concorde Crash (July 3, 2008) Herubel's co-defendants include two other French citizens and two Americans. The crash killed 113 people.

The Concorde crash was reportedly caused by a fuel tank explosion due to debris on the runway.The Huffington Post: Airline Employees To Stand Trial For 2000 Concorde Crash (July 3, 2008) A key factor in the case against Herubel—as well as his former Aerospatiale colleague Henri Perrier—is the finding of French investigators that he was negligent in designing the fuel tanksBusinessWeek: Concorde Crash a Tragedy, But Is It a Crime? (July 3, 2008) and was aware of the flaw.The Huffington Post: Airline Employees To Stand Trial For 2000 Concorde Crash (July 3, 2008)

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