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A BOAC Boeing 314 Clipper lands on Lagos Lagoon, 1943. BOAC inherited Imperial Airways' flying boat services to British colonies in Africa and Asia, but with the wartime loss of the route over Italy and France to Cairo these were replaced by the expatriate 'Horseshoe Route', with Cairo as a hub, and Sydney and Durban as end destinations ...
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Aviation accidents and incidents on British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) flights Pages in category "British Overseas Airways Corporation accidents and incidents" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
g-boac (204) The flagship of the fleet (because of its BOAC registration) first flew on 27 February 1975 from Filton. It made its final flight to Manchester Airport – where a "glass hangar" was later built at the viewing park for its display – on 31 October 2003 after flying 22,260 hours.
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Boac may refer to: Boac, Marinduque , a municipality in the central Philippines British Overseas Airways Corporation , abbreviated as BOAC, a former British state-owned airline
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On 2 May 1953, BOAC Flight 783, a de Havilland Comet jetliner registered G-ALYV and operated by British Overseas Airways Corporation, broke up mid-air and crashed after encountering a severe squall, shortly after taking off from Calcutta (now Kolkata), India. All 43 passengers and crew on board were killed.