CONCORDE sails down the Hudson River in its first voyage in 20 years
The iconic supersonic jet was loaded onto a barge from its home at the Intrepid Museum in New York City for restoration work.
Concorde sails down the Hudson River in its first voyage in 20 yearsRex
The supersonic jet floats past the iconic Statue of LibertyRex
GettyThe plane was loaded onto a barge from its home at the Intrepid Museum in New York City for restoration work[/caption]
It took roughly two hours for the British Airways jet to reach the Brooklyn Navy Yard – around 52 minutes less than the jet’s record-setting flight from New York to London in 1996.
The G-BOAD jet, which first flew in 1976, sailed past landmarks including the Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge.
It was one of just 14 supersonic passenger-carrying commercial aircrafts, all of which are no longer in operation.
The jet is expected to be away from the museum for around three-months for repainting.
In April we revealed the chilling final words of a Concorde pilot after his plane caught on fire and crashed just 77 seconds into a flight leaving 113 passengers dead.
It came after a transcript from the dire moments in the cockpit were revealed from the horrific aviation accident that happened in France more than two decades ago.
In 2000, the infamous plane was heading from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport to New York carrying 100 travellers and nine flight crew.
But, shortly after taking off the luxury jet caught fire and subsequently ploughed into a hotel in the small town of Gonesse.
The terrifying photo of the Air France flight 4590 Concorde plane engulfed in flames mid-flight has forever been engrained in French history.
Scenes from the wreckage also left viewers shocked as the frame of the jet was left in ruins.
AP:Associated PressThe terrifying image of the Air France Concorde flight 4590 engulfed in flame in 2000[/caption]