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On This Day - October 24th 2003
Supersonic aircraft, the Concorde, completes its last commercial passenger flight.
The Concorde was a form of specially designed supersonic air transport. The concept of supersonic aircraft was conceived in the 1950s. During the 1960s, Britain's Bristol Aeroplane Company and France's Sud Aviation were simultaneously working on designs, but the anticipated costs of the project were too great to be developed by an individual company: hence, France and Britain decided to work cooperatively. An international treaty between Britain and France was negotiated for the development of the project. The first test flight took place from Toulouse, France, on 2 March 1969, and the first supersonic flight occurred on October 1 of that year.
In July 2000, a Concorde jet on its way from France to New York crashed just a couple of minutes after a left-hand engine caught fire during take-off. All 109 people on board were killed, and another 4 on the ground. Followng the accident, all Concorde aircraft were taken out of service until the cause of the crash could be determined. The report from France's Accident Investigation Bureau (BEA) found that a 40cm piece of metal had been lost by another plane that took off minutes earlier, puncturing one of the Concorde's tyres. Debris was subsequently flung into the fuel tank, starting the fire that downed the aircraft. The Concorde aircraft underwent improvements and modifications, but after the accident continued to be dogged by problems.
Due to continuing problems and the loss of profitability, all Concorde aircraft were decommissioned by October 2003. The final transatlantic flight of the supersonic aircraft landed at London's Heathrow airport, at 1605 BST on 24 October 2003. A huge auction of Concorde memorabilia was held in Paris in November 2003.