On May 31, 2003, hundreds of them gathered near Roissy airport. Onlookers, Air France employees... Impossible to miss the event. It is 17:45 p.m. when its very particular silhouette is revealed in the air. To applause, the Concorde from New York lands on the tarmac, greeted by dozens of service vehicles that accompany it in a procession along the tracks. After twenty-seven years of service, the legendary aircraft takes its early retirement: flight AF001 is the last commercial flight of the supersonic aircraft for the French company.
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When Air France decided to stop, it was a heartbreak for everyone, "recalls, twenty years later, Kim-Gaëtan Le Ngoc, steward on the Concorde for nearly ten years. Fascinated by the device, he had asked to be assigned to it after a drastic internal selection in the mid-1990s. The enthusiasm aroused by this unique aircraft - which connected Paris to New York in 3h30...
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