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04/10/1958 The first trans-Atlantic jet passenger service

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First Transatlantic Passenger Flight

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FIRST PASSENGER AIRCRAFT CROSS ATLANTIC. DIXIE CLIPPER / PLANE Stock Footage

The British Overseas Airways Corporation flew the first jet airliner service using the de Havilland Comet, when G-APDC initiated the first transatlantic Comet 4 service and the first scheduled transatlantic passenger jet service in history, flying from London to New York with a stopover at Gander.