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'Concorde's return' was April Fool hoax
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-04-03 16:36

'Concorde's return' was April Fool hoax

Claims that Concorde will fly again this June have been exposed as an April Fool's joke.

France's Museum of Air and Space said in an online statement that the two-hour flight would take-off on June 16, breaking the sound barrier off Ireland.

The museum was given two of the planes after their retirement and claimed that one had been kept flight-ready, reports The Daily Telegraph.

A number of newspapers fell for the hoax before director Gerard Feldzer admitted that the claims were hollow. He added that its aim was to keep the dream of Concorde flying again alive.

"This hoax launched by the Museum of Air and Space can produce ideas and make the dream live on," Feldzer said.