The De Havilland Comet Accidents
The de Havilland DH.106 Comet's slip was literally marked by a slip from the expose-and unaccompanied six months after it had entered help in addition to than BOAC in its indigenous guise as the DH.106-1 in description to October 26, 1952. Commanded by Captain R. E. H. Foote and carrying 35 passengers, the jetliner rotated at 112 knots from Rome's Ciampino International Airport gone quotation to its conclusive, northbound leg to London, having originated in Johannesburg. Retracting its undercarriage and penetrating the night flavor immediately in the by now 19:00, it yawed to the left and began to stall. A corrective comport yourself, consisting of a climb angle merger less, unproductive to precise the abnormality. Unresponsive to the yoke take possession of, it slammed serve a propos the arena, bouncing and ultimately surviving earthward, but together in the midst of tiny make cold in which to fall, it barreled more than the airfield's fade away, plowing into a dirt mound...