There were no casualties but the aircraft was written off. In an otherwise underwhelming 94th Academy Awards ceremony, singer Billie Eilish took home the Oscar for Best Original Song alongside her brother Finneas. BOAC Flight 911 (call sign "Speedbird 911") was a round-the-world flight operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) that crashed near Mount Fuji in Japan on 5 March 1966, with the loss of all 113 passengers and 11 crew members. It was determined that the failure of the support member for the starboard main gear uplock caused the gear to fall in flight, damaging hydraulic system lines. In historys worst commercial air disaster involving a single plane, 133 persons perished in a Japanese Boeing 727 jetliner that plunged into Tokyo Bay Feb. 4. Ironically, as the doomed BOAC jet taxied out for takeoff Saturday afternoon it passed the wreckage at Haneda Airport of a Canadian Pacific DC8 jetliner that crashed while landing in a fog Friday night, killing 64 of 72 persons on board. 3-6-1966, p. 1. The violent forces exerted by the turbulent air could have caused structural failure of one of the engines, leading to a subsequent fire. Corinne May Goldstein Cho-o Ikeya, a fireman, reported that plane seemed to plunge rapidly at first, then slowed down. Louisiana Mrs. Philemine D. McDonald New Orleans area En route from Cairo to Khartoum at an altitude of 20,500 feet, a loss of hydraulic pressure occurred. The aircraft wreckage was eventually found on the sea floor; it was subsequently raised and transported to the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) for investigation. It is one of those stories that make your blood run cold and even with the odds of being killed on a single airline flight at 1 in 29.4 million, fear is a constant companion of many air travellers. G. C.A. The Secretary of State required BOAC to place the whole undertaking at his disposal. Saturday 5 March 1966.). Except for the front portion of the fuselage which lay on its port side, severe damage resulted from fire which broke out and spread rapidly, due probably to the partial detachment of the port wing and rupture of the fuel tanks. 124 (89 US). It was the third fatal passenger airline accident in Tokyo in a month, following the crash of All Nippon Airways Flight 60 on 4 February and that of Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402 just the day before.[1]. Barbara Stuckey, 33 Torrance Women Among Victims of BOAC Disaster. 3-6-1966, p. 1. All 124 occupants were killed. [citation needed], Official findings concerning BOAC Flight 781 and South African Airways Flight 201 were released jointly on 1 February 1955, in Civil Aircraft Accident: Report of the Court of Inquiry into the Accidents to Comet G-ALYP on 10 January 1954 and Comet G-ALYY on 8 April 1954. Reginald Frederick Freestone San Francisco Minnesota: Ralph Vincent Kerwin Minneapolis Comet 4s flew with BOAC until 1965 and with British . While completing the approach checklist, the crew was unable to lower the landing gear, even with the emergency systems. Saturday 5 March 1966. British Overseas Airways Corporation BOAC, Boeing 707-436. In 2016, Lind released a charity documentary film entitled 'A Bond For Life - How James Bond changed my Life' in support of UNICEF. Three times, the captain decided to abandon the approach procedure for a go around maneuver. Fuji Saturday and fluttered like a leaf down to disaster on the sacred mounts slopes. To find out what caused the first failure, BOAC donated G-ALYU ("Yoke Uncle") for testing. Faith. Betty Jane Walker Helen R. Kerwin "[3] It also stated "it is not unreasonable to assume that, on the day of the accident, powerful mountain waves existed in the lee of Mt Fuji, as in the case of mountain waves formed by extended ridges, and that the breakdown of the waves resulted in small-scale turbulence, the intensity of which might have become severe or extreme in a short period of time. Copyright 2023 Timothy Hughes Rare & Early Newspapers. Several passengers decided to cancel their tickets at the last moment in order to see a ninja demonstration. Japanese witnesses said they saw the plane break apart, then swirl down like a leaf, trailing fire and white smoke, its wreckage scattered over a wide area on the rugged slopes and set fire to trees and brush in some places. It was Japans second major air disaster within 19 hours and the third in a month. Charles Galbo Cheektowaga The thrust lever for No. Black Box: Why Air Safety Is No Accident. 1. The young son of a British diplomat, Derek Partridge, and Dora Rove, his nanny were "bumped" to make room for Howard and Chenhalls, who had only confirmed their tickets at 5 pm the night before the flight and whose priority status allowed them to take precedence over other . Allegiant's low-cost, high-efficiency, all-jet passenger airline offers air travel both on a stand-alone basis and bundled with travel products such as hotels, car rental and entertainment tickets. Flight 781 was commanded by Captain Alan Gibson DFC, age 31, one of BOAC's youngest pilots. Tori Louis Jones Update now. 2 engine, adding words to the effect that a landing should be made at the earliest possible moment. The pilot-in-command then ordered immediate evacuation of the flight deck. Before this could be carried out there was an explosion from the port wing which increased the intensity of the fire and blew fragments of the wing over to the starboard side of the aircraft. The use of reverse thrust caused the flames to be deflected in towards the fuselage. He had considerable flying experience, having logged more than 6,500 flight hours. 300 m to the west of the above site and caught fire. Bodies had been recovered late into the night, and although the search had continued in the freezing water, there was little hope of finding any survivors. In order to bring the aircraft to a stop in the shortest possible distance after landing, in addition to the wheel. The aircraft then encountered strong turbulence, causing it to break up in flight and crash into a forest. The Boeing 707 jetliner involved disintegrated mid-air shortly after departing from Tokyo, as a result of severe clear-air turbulence. Now that both black boxes have been recovered from AirAsia flight. Then there were flames, with both segments burning. Fuji Philadelphia Inquirer, 3-6-1966, p6. The four engine aircraft departed runway 25 at Kano Airport for Tripoli in moderate rain and climbed to an altitude of 250 feet. 2 engine, together with part of its pylon, became detached and fell into a waterfilled gravel pit. Sir Arnold Hall, a Cambridge University scholar and scientist and then-head of the RAE, was appointed as the head accident investigator.[3]. The crew continued the flight and started the descent to Khartoum. BOAC Flight 781 was a scheduled British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) passenger flight from Singapore to London. The camera and film were recovered from the wreckage and the film was developed as part of the investigation. BOAC flew Handley Page Hermes and later Canadair Argonauts to Africa in 1950s. The problem was exacerbated by the punch rivet construction technique employed. The accident was the result of the aircraft being flown into ground obscured by fog. Because the undercarriage was retracted, the warning horn sounded when the flight engineer fully retarded the thrust lever; the check pilot and flight engineer simultaneously went for and pulled the horn cancel switch on the pedestal whilst the co-pilot, instinctively, but in error, pressed the fire bell cancel button in front of him. Michigan: Charles M. Heemstra Detroit All rights reserved. Seven occupants were killed while three others were seriously injured. To see this page as it is meant to appear, please enable your Javascript! Three passengers seated on the DC-3 disembarked before departure. All 27 occupants were evacuated safely while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair. The aircraft was prepared for the next leg to Hong Kong and a flight plan was filed for a flight in accordance with the instrument flight rules via Oshima on airway JG6 to Hong Kong at FL310. [6][8], An 8 mm film exposed by one of the passengers was recovered from the wreckage. The crew included a stewardess. [13][14], Several booked passengers cancelled their tickets at the last moment to see a ninja demonstration. [9], Although some stress cracking was found in the vertical stabiliser bolt holes, it was determined by subsequent testing that it did not contribute to the structural failure. Accessed 3-13-2020 at: https://newspaperarchive.com/independent-press-telegram-mar-06-1966-p-1/, New York Times. Jack Weiss License. The mid-aft fuselage together with the wing, making a slow flat spin to the right, crashed into a forest at the foot of Mount Fuji. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members on board the plane were killed, in the 6th worst aviation accident on Japanese soil. They say there are no coincidences. Black Box: Why Air Safety Is No Accident. Washington County has a shared repeater on 453.150 MHz located on Fairview Mountain with a license of KNEX271. G-APFE, the aircraft involved, pictured in 1962, Aviation accidents and incidents in Japan, Pakistan International Airlines Flight 17, Airliner accidents and incidents caused by in-flight structural failure, Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 707, British Overseas Airways Corporation accidents and incidents, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, In-flight break-up caused by clear air turbulence. and wives. To support this theory, and also to confirm the cause of the skull fractures, the crash was simulated at the RAE in Farnborough by reproducing the conditions of the actual plane prior to the crash. Incredible twist of fate. After takeoff, the aircraft made a continuous climbing right turn over Tokyo Bay, and rolled out on a southwest heading, passing north of Odawara. Aviation Safety Network: "BOAC Flight 911 was a scheduled service from San Francisco (SFO) to Hong Kong (HKG) via Honolulu (HNL) and Tokyo (HND). It was the third fatal passenger airline accident . 2000 m, the forward fuselage broke away. The accident was the result of errors of judgment on the part of the captain in: Crash of a Boeing 707-465 in London: 5 killed, Crash of a Boeing 707-436 on Mt Fuji: 124 killed, Crash of a Bristol 175 Britannia 102 in Khartoum, Crash of a Bristol 175 Britannia 312 in Winkton: 9 killed, Crash of a Canadair C-4M Argonaut in Kano: 32 killed, Crash of a De Havilland DH.104 Dove 2 at London-Heathrow, Crash of a Canadair C-4M Argonaut in Tripoli: 15 killed, Crash of a Boeing 377-10-28 Stratocruiser in Prestwick: 28 killed, Subscribe to British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC. 4 engines was used down to a very low speed. Air Disaster Volume 1, p.47, Job, Macaurthur. The captain decided to complete a belly landing on the sandy area alongside the runway. A short time later, the ventral fin and all four engine pylons failed due to a leftward over-stress, shortly followed by the remainder of the empennage. BOAC Flight 781 was a scheduled British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) passenger flight from Singapore to London. Mary Silverman The Boeing 707 jetliner involved disintegrated mid-air shortly after departing from Tokyo, as a result of severe clear-air turbulence. Fuji. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Josephine D. Varner At noon, the Weather Bureau said the winds at Mt. Black Box: Why Air Safety Is No Accident. Utah: William George Ligeros Salt Lake City All on Plane Are Dead in Crash into Japans Fuji; Jetliner Crashes on Mount Fuji after Take-Off from Tokyo Airport. Although the US bound flight had to stop to refuel in Newfoundland, the London flight made the journey non-stop in six hours and 11 minutes. Film footage shows Flight 911 taxi-ing past the still smouldering wreckage of Flight 402 immediately before taking off for the last time. brakes, reverse thrust from No. Florida: Mr. Harold Tomas Orlando It then turned right again toward the mountain, flying over Gotemba on a heading of approximately 298, at an indicated airspeed of 320 to 370 knots, and an altitude of approximately 16,000ft (4,900m), well above the 12,388ft (3,776m) mountain peak. Ruby Irene Crouch The New York Times wrote that, despite initial reports of fire and explosion, aviation experts were of the opinion that wind conditions around the volcanic cone may have caused the crash, the vicinity of the peak being notorious for its difficult air currents. The following findings were reported: San Francisco Honolulu Tokyo Hong Kong London. The airplane slid for hundreds yards before coming to rest. Japan Air Lines Flight 123 (JAL123) (Japanese: ) was a scheduled domestic Japan Air Lines passenger flight from Haneda Airport in Tokyo to Itami International Airport in Osaka.On August 12, 1985, the Boeing 747SR operating this flight suffered a sudden decompression 12 minutes into the flight, and crashed in the area of Mount Takamagahara, Ueno, Gunma . AP. Or any other source ? Marjorie M. Richings The accident was the result of loss of height and airspeed caused by the aircraft en- countering, at approximately 250 feet after takeoff, an unpredictable thunderstorm cell which gave rise to a sudden reversal of wind direction, heavy rain, and possible downdraught conditions. The aircraft then entered a flat spin, with the forward fuselage section and the outer starboard wing breaking off shortly before impact with the ground. The plane had a crew of 11. 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