Air France Concorde makes final landing

Air France’s streamlined white Concorde swooped into a Paris airport on its final commercial flight home today, an emotional end to years of supersonic travel between New York and Paris.

The plane touched down at Charles de Gaulle Airport at 5.44 pm local time (3.44 Irish time) after cruising over the Atlantic Ocean at twice the speed of sound. Hundreds of Concorde fans gathered to watch.