A Qantas aircraft has officially broken the Guinness World Record for the longest commercial airliner flight by distance. 

The Project Sunrise Airbus A350-1000ULR departed Melbourne Australia, for Toulouse, France, at 5.27pm local time on July 27th, and has just recently been verified by Guinness World Records.

The flight covered a distance of 12,503 nautical miles, with a flight time of 24 hours and 24 minutes as part of Qantas Airways’ ‘Project Sunrise’.

Joining Tom Dunne to discuss this is Kevin Byrne, retired Lieutenant Colonel of the Irish Air Corps & Airport Safety and Security Auditor.