The final commercial passenger flight of a DC-10 has been made from Birmingham airport.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the aircraft’s last operator, will now switch to using a Boeing 777.
The first DC-10 landed in Birmingham on a demonstration flight in November 1972.
Low-fares transatlantic carrier Laker Airways introduced the DC-10 to Europe in the 1970s.
A group flew on the aircraft’s final international journey from Dhaka to Birmingham and Radio 2 DJ Janice Long, who worked on a Laker DC-10 in the 1970s, gave the in-flight announcements to passengers.
“When I worked for Laker I never got to do the announcement, which is strange when you consider what I do now,” she said.
Biman originally said the DC-10’s final resting place would be Bruntingthorpe Aviation Museum in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, but the carrier has since decided to return it to Bangladesh to be scrapped, the BBC reported.