I remember it well, as I was at the Farnborough Air Show at the time. I was touring the new A-340 they had displayed, and the French reps were all talking on their mobile phones, and one told me "Le Concorde, it has crashed...". Tragic. I was on a bus full of reporters, leaving the site, and none of them knew. By the time we reached the BritRail station, all their mobile phones were ringing.