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BOAC and Flight
* 1968 – BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after take off.
* 1954 – BOAC Flight 781 A de Havilland DH. 106 Comet 1 explodes into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
** BOAC Flight 911 crashes in severe clear-air turbulence over Mount Fuji near Tokyo, Japan, killing all 124 persons on board.
* January 10-British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ) Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue and crashes in the Mediterranean Sea near Elba.
BOAC Flight 777 was shot down over the Bay of Biscay.
Howard died in 1943 when flying to Bristol, UK, from Lisbon, Portugal, on KLM Royal Dutch Airlines / BOAC Flight 777.
* BOAC Flight 712, where a flight attendant, Barbara Jane Harrison died saving passengers from an on-board fire and was posthumously awarded the George Cross.
* Barbara Jane Harrison, an air stewardess on BOAC Flight 712, who died on 8 April 1968 after helping many passengers escape from an onboard fire at Heathrow Airport.
It can even be a hazard for large aircraft ; the phenomenon is believed responsible for many aviation accidents and incidents including the in-flight break up of BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, near Mt.
Albert had a ticket booked on BOAC Flight 911.
** German Junkers Ju 88 fighters shoot down a Douglas DC-3 airliner operating as BOAC Flight 777 during its flight from Lisbon, Portugal, to the United Kingdom.
* January 10 – A de Havilland Comet 1, operating BOAC Flight 781, crashes into the Mediterranean Sea near Elba following fatigue failure, killing all 35 people aboard.
* March 5 – After taxiing past the wreckage of Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402, Boeing 707-436 G-APFE, operating as BOAC Flight 911, disintegrates and crashes near Mount Fuji in Japan shortly after take-off from Tokyo International Airport, killing all 124 people on board.
* April 8 – An engine falls off the BOAC Boeing 707-465 G-ARWE, operating as Flight 712, seconds after takeoff from London Heathrow Airport in England, setting the wing on fire.
* September 9 – To pressure British authorities into releasing Leila Khaled, a PFLP sympathizer hijacks BOAC Flight 775, a Vickers VC10 flying from Bahrain to Beirut with 114 people on board, and forces it to land at Dawsons Field in Jordan.
* A fifth plane, BOAC Flight 775, a Vickers VC10 coming from Bahrain, was hijacked on September 9 by a PFLP sympathizer and brought to Dawson's Field in order to pressure the British to free Khaled.
* BOAC Flight 911, a British Overseas Airways flight that crashed in 1966

BOAC and flight
However, it would be months before Dr. Banda's whereabouts could be known leading to his scheduled arrival at Chileka Airport in 1958 being postponed twice ; causing the local white Police to forcefully remove ' disappointed ' crowds that had threatened to storm the BOAC flight, inside of which they had believed Dr. Banda was being held hostage!
** A BOAC scheduled passenger flight, a DC-3 with registration G-AGBB, ( formerly KLM PH-ALI, Ibis ), enroute between Lisbon and Bristol, is attacked over the Bay of Biscay by German fighters.
With the same wings and engines as the Lincoln, it achieved only a short ( 34 completed ) production run following a first flight in June 1945 and the cancellation of an order from BOAC.
* On 6 September 1970, the PFLP ( including Leila Khaled ) hijacked four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich, and failed in an attempt to hijack an El Al aircraft which landed safely in London after one hijacker was killed and the other overpowered ; and on 9 September 1970, hijacked a BOAC flight from Bahrain to London via Beirut.
The Pan Am flight was diverted to Cairo ; the TWA, Swissair and BOAC flights were diverted to Dawson's Field in Zarqa, Jordan.
File: Bristol 175 Britannia 312 G-AOVP BA RWY 15. 12. 59 edited-2. jpg | BOAC Britannia 312 landing at Manchester on a transatlantic flight in 1959
Bond is drugged before his flight back to England and wakes to find he has been captured by Goldfinger, who has managed to hijack a BOAC jetliner.
In the April 1957 Official Airline Guide they were the only passenger airlines: three Pan Am DC-7Cs a week FRA-LHR-SNN-DTW-ORD and back, and one BOAC DC-7C a week LHR-PIK-YUL-DTW-ORD and back ( skipping YUL on the return flight ).
In 1966, Biggs took a BOAC flight to Sydney, where he lived for several months before moving to the seaside suburb of Glenelg in Adelaide, South Australia.
* December 24 – During a test flight to renew its certificate of airworthiness, the BOAC Bristol Britannia 312 G-AOVD crashes near Sopley and Winkton, England, killing nine of the 12 people on board and injuring all three survivors.
American's only westward non-stops were to Chicago ; United had a nonstop DC-7 to Los Angeles ; come summer TWA would resume its weekly Constellation flight to Paris via Gander and Shannon ( BOAC and Pan American flew out of DTW ).
* 24 December 1958 – BOAC Bristol Britannia 312, registration G-AOVD, crashed as a result of a controlled flight into terrain, ( CFIT ), near Winkton, England while on a test flight.
Then on September 9, a BOAC flight from Bahrain was also hijacked to Zarqa.

BOAC and 1966
In 1966 the first regular jet service to London-Gatwick started and in 1968 Aer Lingus and BOAC introduced scheduled services to New York City via Shannon and Glasgow-Prestwick respectively.
The airline commenced commercial operations from its London Gatwick Airport base on 29 July 1966 with two former British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ) Bristol Britannia 102 series turboprops, initially operating under contract to Air France.
* 1966: John moved to Canada and worked with BOAC ( now British Airways ), after six months he visited Scotland and became part of pirate radio and joined Radio Scotland, where he stayed until it closed 18 months later.

BOAC and after
Shortly after the takeover, Canadair began delivering its new Canadair North Star ( a version of the DC-4 ), and was able to deliver aircraft to Trans-Canada Airlines, Canadian Pacific Airlines and British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ) well in advance of their contracted delivery times.
The TWA, Swissair and BOAC aircraft were subsequently blown up by the PFLP on 12 September, in front of the world media, after all passengers had been taken off the planes.
The sole C-69C after civilianization for BOAC as a Lockheed 049E.
All Comet 1 aircraft were grounded in April 1954 after four Comets crashed, the last two being BOAC aircraft at altitude.
After two false starts, including a fracas between the police and African crowds threatening to storm a BOAC airplane rumored to be carrying Dr. Banda at Chileka Airport, Banda finally made a showing on 6 July 1958 after an absence of about 42 years.
Flights to London began to employ Bristol Britannia 102s wet-leased from BOAC from 16 April, leading to a reduction in Stratocruiser services and the retirement of the type after its final departure for London, via Barcelona, on 31 August.
The pool arrangement with BOAC was terminated in November 1962, some three years before its expected July 1985 expiry, after Ghana Airways signed a pool agreement with Alitalia covering flights between Accra and Rome.
* March 31 – British Airways commences operations after BOAC and BEA merge to create the new airline.
BOAC inaugurated the world's first commercial scheduled jet service on 2 May 1952, using the de Havilland Comet, followed by the introduction of the Comet 4 in 1958 after a series of accidents in 1953-1954.
However, this triple-voting system is by no means the only way to achieve adequate redundancy and reliability, and in fact soon after BEA and de Havilland had decided to go down that route, a parallel trial was set up using a " dual-dual " concept, chosen by BOAC and Vickers for the VC10 4-engined long range aircraft.
He later sued BOAC for damages, and after hearings in the High Court, the case was settled in November 1952 when he accepted £ 3, 017 in damages.

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