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
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
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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.
British European Airways Flight 548
…commonplace in the early 1970s. Support was expected, but the British Air Line Pilots Association (BALPA) organised a postal ballot to ask members at British European Airways (BEA) whether they wanted to join the strike. Because of the impending strike, travellers had amended their plans to avoid disruption, and as a result…
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.