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It had been originally proposed in 1948 as the "PR Comet", a high-altitude photo reconnaissance adaptation of the Comet 1. The Ghost DGT3-powered airframe featured a narrowed fuselage, a bulbous nose with H2S Mk IX radar, and a four-crewmember pressurised cockpit under a large bubble canopy. Fuel tanks carrying 2,400 imperial gallons (11,000 L ...
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.
BOAC Flight 712 was a British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) service operated by a Boeing 707-465 from London Heathrow Airport bound for Sydney via Zurich and Singapore. On Monday 8 April 1968, it suffered an engine failure on takeoff that quickly led to a major fire; the engine detached from the aircraft in flight.
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 ...
Hats off to designer Michael Rostami of Unicon Builders for this stunningly bold glass house. Sure there is steel and concrete holding it up, but nothing that would dare impede on the panoramic ...
The Aden Airways terminal building at Khormaksar.Photo taken c. 1960. In 1947, a proposal to form an airline in Aden using a pair of Bristol Wayfarers did not materialize. . An engineering base was established by BOAC in Asmara, Eritrea, in January 1948 as part of BOACs No.5 Line, which was centered on Aden and served Cairo, Nairobi and the Red Sea ar
1967 154 2010 Avro Canada C102 Jetliner: Canada 4 1949 cancelled 1949 1 cancelled Baade 152: East Germany 4 1958 cancelled 1961 3 cancelled BAC One-Eleven: UK [k] 2 1963 1965 1989 244 2019 Rombac 1-11: Romania [l] 2 1982 1983 1993 9 2019 Boeing 707: United States 4 1957 1958 1979 865 2019 (Civilian service ended with Saha crash.) Aérospatiale ...
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).