BOAC Flight 781

When

10 Jan 1954

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

42.68° N, 10.43° E

Description

aviation accident

Deaths

35

Injured

0

Cause

fatigue

1954 aviation accident in the Mediterranean Sea

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 operating the flight suffered an explosive decompression at altitude and crashed, killing all 35 people on board.

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