Concorde eventually succumbed to the forces of economics, to a tragic accident in Paris that traced to a tire and fuel tank problem, and to the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, which killed a large number of the plane's best customers.(Gary Glassman 2005) Three years after the accident the world's first supersonic airliner made final landing at London Heathrow on the 24th of October in 2003.