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On 2 August 1947, Star Dust, a British South American Airways (BSAA) Avro Lancastrian airliner on a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes. An extensive search operation failed to locate the wreckage, despite covering the area of the crash site.
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In May 1947 the airline started a series of test flights to Bermuda using a converted Avro Lancaster which was refuelled in mid-air over the Azores to complete the flight in 20 hours. [6] On 2 August 1947, Avro Lancastrian Star Dust crashed in Argentina with the loss of all on board. In the first financial year under government control (August ...
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On 2 August 1947, Star Dust, a British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner operating as flight CS59 from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile, crashed into Mount Tupungato, in the Argentine Andes. An extensive search operation failed to locate the wreckage, despite covering the area of the crash site, and the fate of the ...
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U.S. Army Air Force Tech. Sgt. Sanford G. Roy was one of several airmen aboard a plane shot down over Germany in April 1944. ... The remains of a World War II airman were identified 80 years after ...
August 2 – In the 1947 BSAA Star Dust accident, an Avro Lancastrian airliner disappeared over the Andes after transmitting an enigmatic coded message ("STENDEC"); the fate of the aircraft remains a mystery for more than 50 years until the crash site is finally located in 2000; it is apparent that all 11 people on board died in the accident.