What the records say
- When
- 18 Jun 1972
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 51.44° N, 0.51° W
- Description
- The Staines air disaster (1972)
- Deaths
- 118
- Injured
- 0
British European Airways Flight 548
1972 aircraft accident in England
British European Airways Flight 548 was a scheduled passenger flight from London Heathrow to Brussels that crashed near Staines, England, United Kingdom, shortly after take-off on 18 June 1972, killing all 118 people on board. The accident became known as the Staines air disaster.
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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 “Staines air disaster: 118 die when a British European Airways Trident 1 jet airliner crashes two minutes after takeoff from London Heathrow Airport”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “London, Großbritannien”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Под Лондоном разбился самолёт Hawker Siddeley Trident 1C компании BEA, погибли 118 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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