Then the aircraft crashed into a nearby hotel, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground.
Ronald Schmid, a German who also represents the families of the victims of some lawyers, said he was "suspicion" on the ruling.
"It bothered me, which are responsible for the person sitting in the Air France terminal," he said on the phone told AP reporters Cong Fa and Lan Kefu.
Airlines and mechanics, John Taylor, also ordered to jointly pay more than 362,000 dollars in compensation for a variety of civil society.
Taylor also referred to the 15-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of $ 2,670. All other defendants - including three former French officials, and Taylor is now retired director Stanley Ford - was acquitted.
Taylor said the court should not be used titanium, the metal more difficult than usual to build one for DC - 10, it works as a dress with a well-known. He also accused the improper installation of a fall on the runway.
Air France Concorde took off with it in 4590 from Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris left engine followed in this July 25, 2000, file photo fire. (Toshihiko Sato / AP
Mainland's defense lawyer, Olivier Metzner, confirmed that the carrier would appeal. He condemned the ruling, he called the "patriotism" in France out of the accused and convicted only Americans.
"This is a decision only protect the interests of France. It has deviated from the law and justice is not true," he said. "This is purely the prerogative of national interest."
Continental Airlines spokesman Nick Britton in a statement, echoed that sentiment and said the airline "absurd discovery" to oppose and Taylor do not agree.
"Portrayed as an accident and a continent and its employees as the only party guilty of causing the metal bar shows the French authorities are determined to turn their attention to airlines and accused by the French," he said, noting that when the French national aviation operations time.
Roland Rappaport, the Concorde pilot Christian Marty and his family and the pilots union lawyer said, the verdict was "incomprehensible", and asked why blame the mechanical accumulation of mainland officials in Concord that when the French before the crash vulnerability about two years.
"This clearly shows that the test Concorde, this superb aircraft, suffered serious technical deficiencies with the fuel tank known as the problem since '79," he said outside the court.
Against the mainland delivery fined more than 231 000 dollars in fines by the state prosecutor, who had asked Taylor and Ford have 18 months of probation requirements.
Prosecutors also requested 亨利佩里耶, the program's former head of aircraft manufacturer Aerospatiale Concorde first two years of probation. It advocated the innocent French engineer Jacques Herubel and Claude Frantzen, former director of the French Civil Aviation Authority.
Suiran to the collapse of France's aviation authority could not foresee, a judicial inquiry, said the plane's fuel tank lacks sufficient protection from shock, and said officials on the issue has been recognized over 20 years.
Most of the families of the victims compensation a few years ago, so that the focus of financial claims without trial - the main goal is to assign responsibility. It is not unusual in such cases take several years to reach trial in France.
Mainland China is now the headquarters of Continental Airlines in Chicago holding company, established in October the United Nations and Continental Airlines, will eventually merge into a single airline holding company as part owner.
In France, in many other countries, often results in the trial of the crash to assign criminal responsibility. This is a common case, a drag on for years.
In 2009, France's highest court finally confirmed the original space in a crash, killing 87 people in 1992, 17 years ago was accused person acquitted of all responsibility
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