The Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger plane, has landed on US soil for the first time after a test flight.
The superjumbo, carrying about 500 people, arrived in New York from Frankfurt, and was greeted by a large crowd of enthusiastic spectators.
The flight was billed as the first time it has carried a near-normal number of passengers, though most were staff of Airbus and German airline Lufthansa.
A second A380 landed later in Los Angeles but without any passengers.