A French appeals court has cleared US airline Continental of blame for the July 2000 crash of a Concorde jet shortly after take-off from Paris, reports the BBC.
The ruling comes two years after another French court fined the airline and held it criminally responsible for the crash in which 113 people died.
Investigators had said a piece of metal left on the runway after falling from a Continental jet had caused the crash.
Continental labelled the initial court decision absurd and launched an appeal.
The Air France Concorde burst into flames and crashed into nearby buildings after it took off from Charles de Gaulle airport, killing all 109 people on board and four hotel workers.
Most of the passengers were German tourists heading to New York to join a cruise to the Caribbean.
In 2010, a French court decided that the crash had been caused by a titanium strip that had fallen from a Continental airliner.
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