British Airways broke this Sunday the fastest subsonic transatlantic flight record ever, which corresponds to a speed lower than that of sound.
As the North American television station CNN advances, the Boeing 747 left New York and arrived in London 4.56 hours later.
A trip that normally lasts 6.13 hours. The flight, which took off 17 minutes late, happened at a time when the storm Ciara was approaching with great intensity from the United Kingdom.
According to Flightradar24, an online platform that monitors flights in real time, the aircraft arrived at London’s Heathrow airport at 04.43 am on Sunday, almost two hours before the scheduled landing.
During the trip, the plane will have reached a maximum speed of 1327km / hour. What helped you? The intensity of the wind that is felt due to the storm.
The previous record, from the Norwegian carrier, was related to January 2018, established during a flight between New York and London that took 5.13 hours.
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