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The dizzying speeds of Concorde made a shock comeback on Monday when a Norwegian flight topped the speed of sound.

It zoomed from New York to London at a mind-blowing 776mph and took just five hours and 13 minutes – almost a whole hour quicker.

And after touching down at Gatwick and shaving 53 minutes off the flight duration, the pilot then revealed: “We could have flown faster.”

Captain van Dam said: “We were actually in the air for just over five hours and if it had not been for forecasted turbulence at lower altitude, we could have flown even faster.”

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The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner was able to hurtle 284 passengers across the Atlantic on Monday afternoon thanks to a wild 202mph jet stream.

After departing JFK airport at 11.44am and reaching cruising speed, the wind tunnel-like belt of air stretching west-east pushed the plane even faster.

But despite topping the 776mph speed of sound — a luxury the Concorde was most famous for — it technically didn’t go supersonic.

Because the train was already travelling in a fast moving body of air, the velocity needed to break the sound barrier increased.

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Captain Van Dam told Mail Online: “When flying we record groundspeed – like a car travelling on the ground - and airspeed due to the varying wind speeds experienced during flight. The highest groundspeed during the flight was 776mph, more than the speed of sound, however, airspeed is actually slower than groundspeed.

“Therefore, our airspeed was at Mach 0.85, below Mach 1.0 needed to go supersonic and break the sound barrier.”

The plane still set the new record for the fastest transatlantic flight in a subsonic passenger aircraft, last set by a British Airways aircraft in 2015, which was able to fly from JFK to London Heathrow in five hours and 16 minutes.

Norwegian, Europe's third largest low-cost carrier, operates double daily flights between London and New York.

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The fastest ever transatlantic crossing by any passenger plane – not just subsonic – still belongs to the iconic Concorde.

A British Airways Concorde flight flew from New York to London in just two hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds in February 1996.

Sadly this famous jet is a thing of the past, after Daily Star Online revealed one Concorde is now rotting away on the edge of Heathrow Airport.

But supersonic flight is set to make a comeback, with several big firms drawing up plans and aiming to take to the skies as early as 2023.