Board from New York to London set a record thanks to a hurricane

According to Sky News, the Virgin Atlantic Airbus A350-1041, flying at the same time, was only a minute behind the record set by British Airways.

Due to the strong wind during a hurricane, the aircraft accelerated in flight to speeds above 1300 km / h.

The previous high-speed flight record belonged to Norwegian Airlines, whose Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner in 2018 covered the distance from New York to London in 5 hours 13 minutes.

At the same time, the current records do not take into account the flight of the supersonic passenger Concorde, which in 1996 more than doubled the speed of sound and flew the route in 2 hours and 52 minutes.

In October 2019, it was reported that the New York-Sydney Qantas Airlines flight, which lasted 19 hours 15 minutes, was the longest non-stop flight in the world.