A British Airways flight propelled by a 265mph tailwind flew from New York to London in under five hours, setting a subsonic passenger jet record.

The Boeing 747 landed at Heathrow at 4.43am on Sunday after a journey time of just four hours and 56 minutes, and having reached a top speed of 825mph.

The flight was scheduled to land at 06.25am but arrived 102 minutes early.

The flight typically takes six-and-half hours while the average cruising speed of a passenger jet is 575mph. According to the online tracking service Flightradar24, the BA flight was three minutes quicker than a Virgin Atlantic Airbus A350.