British European Airways Flight 548

118Fatalities

0Survivors

118On board

Accident details

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What happened

A Hawker Siddeley Trident undergoes a series of stalls due to pilot error, followed by a deep stall, and crashes near Staines, United Kingdom; all 118 on board are killed.

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