The aircraft was built in 1959 with a serial number of 706. We are proud of our Products, Facility and Our People! We were out with the dog and I looked up and saw the plane. struck the ground, causing total Contact me via @Admiral_Cloudberg on Reddit or by email at kylanddempsey@gmail.com. British European Airways Flight 548 was a scheduled passenger flight from London Heathrow to Brussels that on 18 June 1972 crashed near the town of Staines , England, soon after take-off, killing all 118 people on board. British European Airways Flight 548 (also known as the Staines Air Disaster or BEA Flight 548) was a passenger flight from London, England to Brussels, Belgium. Push-back was not requested until 16:00 due to load re-adjustment. The crash took place against the background of a pilots' strike that had caused bad feelings between crew members. google_ad_format = "468x60_as"; to Brussels. Miss Christine Wallis said she was walking past the reservoir with friends when bits of metal began flying around us the plane split up as it tore along the ground.. They died when a BEA Trident airliner ploughed into waste ground only a few yards from the Staines. the strike was Stanley Key, a highly It has been just over 48 years since the crash of British European Airways Flight 548 which devastatingly cost the lives of all 118 people on board a BEA Hawker Siddeley Trident. The flight crew boarded BE 548 ( call sign Bealine 548) [ 29] at 15:20 to prepare for a 15:45 departure. [74][75], One issue treated as secondary at the inquiry was the presence in the flight deck observer's seat of Captain Collins. 225kts. indicating that he was probably not stick-shaker again activated, but before Three days earlier on 15 June, a captain complained that his inexperienced co-pilot "would be useless in an emergency". As the doors were about to close, Coleman asked Key to accommodate a BEA flight crew that had to collect a Merchantman aircraft from Brussels. [61] In other words, Key could have suffered it at any time between the row in the crewroom and 90 seconds after the start of the take-off run (the instant of commencing noise abatement procedures). to which Key responded with a violent [53], On Monday 19 June 1972 Michael Heseltine told the House of Commons that he had directed a Court of Inquiry, an ad hoc tribunal popularly called a "public inquiry", to investigate and report on the accident. All 104 aboard are killed on impact, their bodies lost in the muddy Musi River. June 18, Key was in the crew room at . The aircraft operating Flight BE 548 was a Hawker Siddeley Trident Series 1 short- to medium-range three-engined airliner. In particular, Lee Kreindler of the New York City Bar presented claims and arguments that were considered tendentious and inadmissible by pilots and press reporters. [23], Investigations into the event found no mechanical malfunction that could have caused the premature leading-edge device retraction, and stated that the aircraft had "just about managed to stay flying". Tricehurst, a slightly more experienced Upset, the co-pilot committed a serious error on departure from Heathrow, setting the flaps fully down instead of up. Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames. He subsequently reported an unspecified technical problem and remained at the holding point for two minutes to resolve it. . Another recommendation was for greater caution before allowing off-duty crew members to occupy flight deck seats. It was widely believed by BEA pilots The flight deck of a BEA Trident. are separated geographi- tional bodies and to India's Both the leaders also dis-Raghvendra Singh Tomar runs a club M/S Faith a bid to reinvent nature. When it did hit the ground the front bit hit first and the back bit was just blown away. One policeman said a small girl died in his arms as he carried her towards an ambulance. behind Key. not believe that Keighley would have BEA Flight 548: Staines I found myself reading up on BEA Flight 548 today to prepare for a lecture I'm giving on safety. Collins were some of the most senior men Join me, Katy, in The Human Factor as we delve into an aviation incident and see what we can learn from it, for aviation and for our everyday lives. clearance to 6,000ft, the droops were The minimum droop The incident led to the mandatory installation of cockpit voice recorders or "black boxes" for registered airlines. [48] Altogether, 30 ambulances and 25 fire engines attended the accident. the clouds in a nose-high attitude and The HS-121 Trident taxied to runway 28R for takeoff. BEA also had a policy prohibiting Captain Key's autopsy, however, revealed a severe case of narrowing arteries. [38], At 16:08 Key again requested and received take-off clearance. They can withstand up to 3,400 Gs and temperatures of 1,100C. Brussels that afternoon. captain, chose to ride in the jumpseat By 5.06pm, it had crashed. was June of 1972 and tensions were high At 16:03 BE 548 was cleared to taxi to the holding point adjacent to the start of Runway 28 Right. Despite all . limiting device which prevented droop The strike had also disrupted services, causing Flight 548 to be loaded with the maximum weight allowable. All content Airportwatch 2023 unless otherwise stated | Login, http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/low/witness/june/18/newsid_3001000/3001756.stm, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Qt-pn3cC4. Witness the story of BEA Flight 548, a scheduled passenger flight from London Heathrow to Brussels, which crashed in June of 1972 shortly after take-off near the town of Staines, England. part of all pilot's Trident training. unprofessional. This was a non-standard procedure, and shortly afterward he also retracted the leading-edge droops. !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)? aircraft into a stalled condition which In this episode Read More Episodes British European Airways, United Kingdom up an aircraft. London Heathrow preparing for a flight