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After an extensive multi-year investigation chaired by Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen, the official document of findings was released by the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, on 1 February 1955, as Civil Aircraft Accident Report of the Court of Inquiry into the Accidents to Comet G-ALYP on 10 January 1954 and Comet G-ALYY on 8 April 1954.
1. On April 8, 1954 Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 9, a Canadair C-4 North Star four-engine commercial propliner on a domestic regular scheduled flight, collided in mid air with a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Harvard Mark II single engine military trainer on a cross-country navigation exercise over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
April 1, 1954 (Thursday) The U.S. Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the founding of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. South Point School was founded in Kolkata, India. It would become the largest school in the world by 1988. [1]
KLM Flight 633 was a passenger flight from Amsterdam to New York City. On 5 September 1954, immediately after takeoff from Shannon Airport, the Super Constellation Triton ditched on a mudbank in the River Shannon. 28 people were killed in the accident. It was caused by an unexpected re-extension of the landing gear, possibly compounded by pilot ...
BOAC Flight 781 was a scheduled British Overseas Airways Corporation passenger flight from Singapore to London. On 10 January 1954, a de Havilland Comet passenger jet operating the flight suffered an explosive decompression at altitude and crashed, killing all 35 people on board. The aircraft, registered G-ALYP, [2] had taken off shortly before ...
3 April. USAF Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar with five aboard goes missing on a flight between Tachikawa Air Base and Ashiya Air Base, Japan. Wreckage sighted on 5 April at the 6,000 foot level of a 6,100-foot peak on Shikoku Island, 20 miles (32 km) south of Saijo, and more than 400 miles southwest of Tokyo.
January 27: An Aeroflot/Armenia Li-2 (CCCP-L4105) struck the side of Mount Kara-Dag (7.5 mi W of Tsaghkashen) during an atmospheric sounding flight due to a navigation error, killing all six crew. The aircraft had been blown off 18 km (11 mi) course by strong winds. [5][6] January 31: An Aigle Azur C-47A (registration F-BGXD) crashed on takeoff ...
It is the deadliest aviation accident in Italian history at the time. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A chartered Grumman G-73 Mallard flying boat (registration N4949N) crashes due to atmospheric icing into woods along the north shore of Wallace Lake, 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Shreveport , Louisiana , while on approach to Shreveport Regional Airport , killing ...