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In the 1970s, the Concorde became the resident star of Heathrow Airport in the UK and Charles de Gaulle International Airport in France as a special airliner. Its popularity was not only due to its white and slender fuselage, beautiful delta wing design and adjustable nose, but also because it was the pinnacle of speed and technology in civil airliners at that time. The maximum speed was 2180 km/h (Mach 2.04), almost twice the speed of sound, and the maximum cruising altitude was 18300 m. It could fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 3 hours and 20 minutes on average to realize Paris to New York, which was twice as fast as ordinary airliners. Since 1976, when the Concorde first flew commercially until its retirement in 2003, the only air accident in its 27 years of operation was the Air France Flight 4590 crash on July 25, 2000.