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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.
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 ...
The Douglas DC-8 (sometimes McDonnell Douglas DC-8) is an early long-range narrow-body jetliner designed and produced by the American Douglas Aircraft Company.Work began in 1952 towards the United States Air Force's (USAF) requirement for a jet-powered aerial refueling tanker.
British Airways Trident 3B G-AWZA still in basic BEA "Speedjack" colours following the BEA-BOAC merger. The aircraft is seen here at Pisa Airport in 1975. BEA ceased operations on 1 April 1974 when it merged with BOAC to form British Airways. A BEA Trident operated the airline's final flight from Dublin to Heathrow on 31 March 1974.
[24] [25] BOAC chairman Gerard d'Erlanger and managing director Sir Basil Smallpeice resigned, defending the opinion that the airline was a profit-making company, not a sponsor of indigenous aircraft. BOAC's incoming chairman Sir Giles Guthrie was also anti-VC10; he proposed that the Vickers programme be shelved in favour of more 707s.
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File information Description Logo of British Overseas Airways Corporation. Source British Overseas Airways Corporation Date 1932 Author Imperial Airways / BOAC / Theyre Lee-Elliott (died in 1988, see Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:British Overseas Airways Corporation (logo).svg)
The BOAC-owned aircraft was being operated by Qantas on the Karachi—Sydney part of the two airlines' joint service from London to Sydney. It disappeared with seven passengers and crew on board between Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, approximately three hours before it was due to arrive at the Cocos islands. [307]