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Sep 13, 2020 | 2:17 am

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binman

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Originally Posted by woodey

I don't think that's right, Concorde was still grounded in September 2001 following the Paris crash. I was meant to travel to New York on September 15th 2001 with my dad to celebrate his 70th birthday. I'd been hoping the rocket would be back in service by then but unfortunately it wasn't. I did manage to get a couple of F redemptions but of course the flights got cancelled in chaos that followed 9/11.

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Originally Posted by BigDogg

Concorde wasn’t in commercial service then from the Air France crash in 2000.

She was flying however. Think it was Alpha-Foxtrot (G-BOAF) was in the air following the modifications made to her following the 2000 crash and she was given the greenlight to return to service when in the air. When they landed and taxied the plane round to BA Engineering, they got off and were told the news then about what was happening in America.

Concorde did fly that day to JFK and did land in New York according to Concorde Heritage. I couldn’t recall the details correctly but was certain it had flown. It wasn’t a commercial flight and had staff.

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