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Fatal Concorde flight not scheduled to come to Las Vegas

Tuesday, July 25, 2000 | 1:49 a.m.

The Concorde jet that crashed into a hotel outside Paris killing at least 113 Tuesday was a chartered flight bound for New York City and did not include Las Vegas on its schedule, airport officials say.

The last visit a Concorde jet made to McCarran International Airport was May 16 on a flight between New York City and Kona, Hawaii, said Debbie Millett, airport spokeswoman.

Before that it was Christmas Eve 1999.

"Characteristically the Concorde comes about three or four times a year," he said.

Millett said the Concorde flight is always a charter flight when it flies beyond New York so its trips to Las Vegas vary.

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