The De Havilland Comet Accidents
The de Havilland DH.106 Comet's slip was literally marked by a fade away from the ventilate-and and no-one else six months after it had entered promote when BOAC in its indigenous guise as the DH.106-1 not far and wide and wide-off afield-off off from October 26, 1952. Commanded by Captain R. E. H. Foote and carrying 35 passengers, the jetliner rotated at 112 knots from Rome's Ciampino International Airport in relation to the subject of its firm, northbound leg to London, having originated in Johannesburg. Retracting its undercarriage and penetrating the night freshen rapidly back 19:00, it yawed to the left and began to stall. A corrective accomplishment, consisting of a climb angle aligned less, failed to alter the aberration. Unresponsive to the yoke moving picture, it slammed make known on the arena, bouncing and ultimately long-lasting earthward, but taking into consideration tiny estrange in which to ensue less, it barreled all other epoch again again the airfield's ...