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Salut Tatane! je t'ai répondu sur ma page Le gorille | Houba | Gare au gorille 6 janvier 2006 à 14:14 (CET)Répondre

DH 106 Comet Accidents modifier

Bonsoir!

Hi Tatane.

I have started articles on two of the Comet crashes here:

G-ALYP BOAC

G-ALYY SAA Charter flight

But the crashes are rather complicated and co-related so I haven't added much yet. I may get round to doing the Calcutta crash (if no-one else does!) The dates I have given in the articles are from a fairly reliable source so should be OK. The Calcutta crash (G-ALYV) was a BOAC one and was on the 2 May 1953. There was also another accident at Karachi (the Canadian Pacific Airways Empress Of Hawaii one) which crashed on take-off on 3 March 1953. That was almost certainly pilot-error though. There were several more crashes but they seem to be due to pilots being unfamiliar with handling the new jets.

If you can get hold of the Stanley Stewart book (Air Disasters - see references at the bottom of the above pages) that has plenty of information on the Comet crashes.

Regards, Ian Dunster