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BOAC Flight 911 (call sign "Speedbird 911") was a round-the-world flight operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) that crashed near Mount Fuji in Japan on 5 March 1966, with the loss of all 113 passengers and 11 crew members.
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.
BOAC-Cunard lettering on a Super VC10 at IWM Duxford. In 1962, BOAC and Cunard formed BOAC-Cunard Ltd to operate scheduled services to North America, the Caribbean and South America. BOAC provided 70% of the new company's capital and eight Boeing 707s. The independent Cunard Eagle Airways, of which Cunard held a 60% shareholding, provided two ...
BOAC Flight 911: Mount Fuji, Japan Boeing 707-436: Severe weather 124 Severe clear-air turbulence, gust load over design limit lead to in-flight breakup 1966-08-06 Braniff Airways Flight 250: Nebraska, United States BAC One-Eleven 203AE: Severe weather 42 Horizontal and vertical stabilizers detached in severe turbulence 1967-03-05 Lake Central ...
Guthrie's tenure at BOAC was marred by a two fatal incidents; the first, BOAC Flight 911, occurred in March 1966 when a Boeing 707 experienced clear-air turbulence whilst overflying Mount Fuji in Japan. The crash resulted in the deaths of all 124 passengers and crew, the most deadly accident involving a British airline to date.
As he did so, passengers on four other flights leaving from Boston, Newark, and Washington DC were preparing to execute a coordinated series of hijackings that ultimately kill nearly 3,000 people ...
After taxiing past the wreckage of Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402 at Tokyo International Airport, Boeing 707-436 G-APFE, operating as BOAC Flight 911, disintegrates in severe clear-air turbulence and crashes near Mount Fuji in Japan shortly after take-off, killing all 124 people on board. The two crashes kill a combined 188 people, a ...
A 911 call made by air traffic controllers suggests that a co-pilot who died after exiting a plane during a mid-flight emergency last week may have jumped. A 911 call made by air traffic ...