Concorde touches down safe after engine malfunction at 58,000ft

A BRITISH Airways Concorde with 50 passengers on board landed safely yesterday after one of its engines malfunctioned at 58,000 feet.

The plane developed problems halfway into the three-and-a-half hour 11.05am Flight 001 from Heathrow to New York’s JFK Airport.

The captain decided to shut down engine number three, which had developed a power surge and was not running at the same power as the other three engines.