G-APFE. the aircraft involved in the accident, in 1962 from previous livery
Accident
Date
March 5, 1966 (March 5, 1966)
Summary
In-flight break-up caused by severe turbulence
Site
Mount Fuji, Japan 35°19′59″N138°48′17″E / 35.33306°N 138.80472°E / 35.33306; 138.80472
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Boeing 707-436
Operator
BOAC
IATA flight No.
BA911
ICAO flight No.
BOA911
Call sign
SPEEDBIRD 911
Registration
G-APFE
Flight origin
Heathrow Airport, London
1st stopover
Montréal–Trudeau International Airport (at the time called, Dorval Airport), Montreal, Canada
2nd stopover
San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California
3rd stopover
Honolulu International Airport, Honolulu, Hawaii
4th stopover
Itazuke Air Base, Fukuoka, Japan (unscheduled)
Last stopover
Haneda Int'l Airport, Tokyo, Japan
Destination
Kai Tak Int'l Airport, British Hong Kong
Passengers
113[1]
Crew
11[1]
Fatalities
124
Survivors
0
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. The Boeing 707 jetliner involved disintegrated mid-air shortly after departing from Tokyo, as a result of severe clear-air turbulence.
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.[2]
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^"On this day, 5 March 1966: Passenger jet crashes into Mount Fuji". BBC News archive. BBC. 5 March 1966. Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
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