The supersonic Concorde jet made its last commercial
passenger flight, traveling at twice the speed of sound
from New York City’s John F. Kennedy International
Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport on October 24,
2003.
The British Airways jet carried 100 passengers, including
actress Joan Collins, model Christie Brinkley and an Ohio
couple who reportedly paid $60,000 on eBay for two tickets
(a roundtrip trans-Atlantic fare typically cost about $9,000).
A large crowd of spectators greeted the plane’s arrival in
London, which coincided with two other final Concorde
flights from Edinburgh and the Bay of Biscay.
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