Superjumbo A380 (Image © Rob Griffith/AP/PA Photos)
Superjumbo lands at Heathrow (Image © ITN)

The world's biggest passenger plane, the Airbus A380 superjumbo, has touched down at Heathrow after its first commercial flight to Europe.

Earlier, speeches were made and champagne flowed as more than 470 passengers, including a number of Britons, flew out of Singapore's Changi airport on the 14-hour journey to London.

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