Tony Bennett and George Benson were among the passengers on a Concorde jet that made an emergency landing on Sunday (7/30) after the smell of fuel was detected in the passenger cabin. The incident occurred less than one week after the fatal crash of an Air France Concorde jet.

Roughly two hours into the three-hour trip from London to New York, a crew member told the aircraft’s pilot that she smelled what seemed to be fuel in the rear area of the passenger cabin, according to a spokesperson for British Airways. The captain then decided to divert the plane to Gardner, Newfoundland, for an immediate landing.

The spokesperson said that the early landing was done “purely as a precaution.”

The jet landed in Gardner without incident at about 6:20pm. Passengers were then transferred to a British Airways-chartered 737 that carried them the rest of the way to New York.

An engineering crew dispatched to Gardner to inspect the Concorde was unable to determine the cause of the smell, and no sign of a fuel leak was found. The plane will return to London's Heathrow airport for further inspection, the spokesperson said.

Bennett, who turns 74 on Thursday (8/3), was returning from a European tour, and is scheduled to kick off a North American tour along with singer Diana Krall on Friday (8/4) at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

Last Tuesday (7/25), an Air France Concorde crashed shortly after takeoff just outside of Paris, killing all 109 people on board and five people on the ground. That airline has grounded its fleet of Concorde jets while that crash is being investigated.