Last Air France Concorde flight to New York leaves Paris

Paris, May 30: Flying into blue skies and history, the last Air France Concorde commercial flight for New York left Paris today closing a pioneering chapter in aviation. The white needle-nosed supersonic plane took off with a roar from Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport at 10.38 a.m. (1408 IST).

In its last commercial flight for Air France, Concorde will fly back to Paris from New York tomorrow and then go into retirement.
"It's very emotional. Concorde is a story of joy, of emotion, of technical prowess," said Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, a Concorde staffer, before the flight departed with 58 passengers, three pilots and eight cabin crew.
Air France and British Airways, the only carriers to operate the aircraft, are both retiring their Concorde fleets. The last British Airways flights are scheduled for October. Bureau Report