An Air France Concorde landed safely in eastern Canada this afternoon after developing an engine problem on a scheduled flight to New York from Paris, the French national airline said.
"Everything is being done so that all the passengers can continue their journeys to New York...as soon as possible," it said in a statement, giving no details of the engine problem that cut short flight AF 002 at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Aboard were 47 passengers and nine crew. A company spokesman declined to give further details.
Air France and British Airways both grounded the supersonic jets after a chartered Air France Concorde crashed on take-off from Paris, killing 113 people, in July 2000. An investigation concluded a blown tire had ruptured a fuel tank.
Both companies, the only ones to operate the four-engined Anglo-French airliner, resumed Concorde flights in November 2001 after modifications to avoid a repetition of the accident.
All 109 people, most of them German tourists, aboard flight AF 4590 to New York died when it crashed in a fireball on July 25, 2000. The crash also killed four people in an airport hotel.