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British European Airways, formally British European Airways Corporation, was a British airline which was founded in 1946 and ceased operations in 1974.
BEA's Hawker Siddeley Trident, pictured in 1967.
BEA flight attendant lapel badge
BEA operated many Douglas DC-3s, later naming them Pionairs, between formation in 1946 and disposal of the last in May 1963.
Vickers Viking 1B ("Admiral" class) G-AHPO in BEA's early bare metal finish livery at Manchester, England, in August 1952.
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, killin
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…write-off, the aircraft next to it, Trident 1C G-ARPI, was subsequently repaired and re-entered service. (The latter aircraft would be involved in the worst accident in BEA's history as well as the worst involving a Trident, in terms of fatalities, on 18 June 1972.) As at the time of the accident both Tridents were empty and not…
G-ARPI, the aircraft involved in the accident, photographed in 1969
The flight deck of a Hawker Siddeley Trident
Passenger cabin of Trident 2E, G-AVFH
P3 position of a BEA Hawker Siddeley Trident