US airline Continental and five individuals are to go on trial in France over the crash of an Air France Concorde nearly 10 years ago. The trial, in Pontoise, near Paris, is expected to last four months. As well as Continental, five individuals are being prosecuted. <br/><br/>Those being prosecuted include John Taylor, the Continental mechanic and Stanley Ford, a maintenance official from the airline. Also facing charges are Concorde's former chief engineer Jacques Herubel, and Henri Perrier, a former head of the Concorde division at Aerospatiale. Claude Frantzen, a former member of France's civil aviation watchdog, is the fifth individual defendant. <br/><br/>The ill-fated jet took off in flames from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and crashed in the town of Gonesse in July 2000, hitting a hotel and killing four people there as well as all 109 on board. An official report said Concorde had hit a metal strip from a Continental plane that had taken off earlier.