Concorde Back
BBC website:
Concorde will have its certificate to fly passengers restored soon, it has been announced.
The British and French aviation authorities have agreed modifications to the aircraft paving the way to the certificate of airworthiness being returned.
The decision was taken in Paris on Wednesday afternoon.
British Airways confirmed that the Civil Aviation Authority and its French equivalent, the DGAC, have agreed to return the certificate.
The CAA's head of design and production standards said: "As an independent specialist regulator, the CAA has monitored all the work and the modifications very closely and is now satisfied that the changes will prevent any future catastrophic accident such as occurred at Paris. "
This could allow passenger services on the supersonic jet to resume within weeks.