Category: Incidents and Accidents

Tags: Seconds From Disaster, Air Crash Investigations, Air Disaster, Mayday, Comet Air Crash, BOAC Flight 781, de Havilland DH106 Comet 1, explosive decompression

On 10 January 1954, British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 781 a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 registered G-ALYP, took off from Ciampino Airport in Rome, Italy, en route to Heathrow Airport in London, England, on the final leg of its flight from Singapore. At about 10:00 GMT, the aircraft suffered an explosive decompression at altitude and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, killing everyone on board.

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