On a chilly, overcast Friday in mid-March, Ghosn, on Renault duty in Paris, boards his jet and touches down less than an hour later in Newcastle, England to visit a Nissan plant 40 minutes away in Sunderland.

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To celebrate, Jerry and the gang take off to Paris in a private NBC jet.

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The jet was en route to Paris, France, from the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro with 228 passengers and crew aboard.

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Air France is taking bookings for the full resumption of scheduled Concorde services on November 7, 15 months after the supersonic jet was grounded by the Paris crash.

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Cephalon even went so far as to conduct clinical trials among adults flying from the US east coast to Paris to show how well it kept jet-lagged travellers alert.

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The intended market is city pairs (like Seattle-Paris) big enough to support nonstop service with a smallish jet but not big enough to fill a giant long-distance plane like the Boeing 747 or upcoming Airbus A380.

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The judges ruled that metal debris that fell from a Continental jet on the runway at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris caused the crash.

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The supersonic jet was grounded soon after it crashed after take off in Paris last July, killing all 109 on board and four on the ground.

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After her stint with Aldebaran in Paris she went back to MIT to get a master's degree, then worked for the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. (which makes space probes), and Syyn Labs, a robotics art collective.

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