Concorde flies again

BRITISH Airways Concorde Alpha Foxtrot has taken off from Heathrow.

The aircraft is on a test flight to check the effect of safety modifications and no commercial passengers are on board.

A spokeswoman for Heathrow said the Concorde took off as planned at 2.20pm without any problems. It is expected to land later today at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.

The fuel tanks on BA’s Concorde fleet are being fitted with special linings to avoid a repetition of last year’s incident when an Air France Concorde crashed killing all 113 people on board.

The aircraft was taken out of service soon afterwards.