What the records say
- When
- 1 Jun 1943
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 46.12° N, 10.25° W
- Description
- 1943 shoot-down of a civilian airliner
- Deaths
- 17
- Injured
- 0
BOAC Flight 777
1943 airliner shootdown incident
BOAC Flight 777 was a KLM flight scheduled as a British Overseas Airways Corporation civilian airline flight from Portela Airport in Lisbon, Portugal, to Whitchurch Airport near Bristol, England. On 1 June 1943, the Douglas DC-3 serving the flight was attacked by eight German Junkers Ju 88 heavy fighter planes and crashed into the Bay of Biscay, killing all 17 on board.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “BOAC Flight 777, a scheduled passenger flight, is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s; all 17 persons aboard perish, including actor…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Le Douglas DC-3 du vol BOAC 777, partant de l'aéroport de Portela au Portugal à destination de l'aéroport de Whitchurch, près de Bristol, en Angleterre est…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page