On July 25th, 2000, Air France Flight 4590 crashed into a roadside hotel outside of Paris, France. In itself, this is a tragedy. But what caught everyone's attention was the kind of plane it was: Concorde. The fastest, most elegant, most famous plane on Earth. Everyone had questions: what happened? How did it happen? And is Concorde unsafe? How could a seemingly perfect plane crash like this? Because while everything seemed pristine on the outside, beneath the surface, Concorde had problems. Problems that would spell doom for those souls aboard, and Concorde as a whole.

Nyck von Boosten is a young creative writer from Maryland who specializes in writing about the macabre and the dark underbelly of life. He also loves to write about machines, especially ones that go fast.