BA Concorde takes off on first full trans-Atlantic test flight

Monday, October 22, 2001

LONDON (AP) -- A British Airways Concorde took off Monday morning for New York on the supersonic jet's first trans-Atlantic flight since service was suspended last year after a crash killed 113 people near Paris.

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