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mahatmakanejeeves

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3. I have a long post for this, which I can't find now, but I think the crack originated

Reply to sdfernando (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 10, 2026, 08:08 PM

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at the opening for the automatic direction finder antenna at the top of the fuselage.

The recovered (shaded) parts of the wreckage of G-ALYP and the site (arrowed) of the failure

Dr Havilland wasn't taking any chances with the windows either, and those openings were rounded off too.

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On this day, January 10, 1954, BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet, exploded and fell into the Tyrrhenian Sea. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Saturday OP

To briefly clarify, the Comet 1 is the type/name of the aircraft...I thought initially that a comet hit the plane SWBTATTReg Saturday #1

The Comet 1 has a big design flaw sdfernando Saturday #2

I have a long post for this, which I can't find now, but I think the crack originated mahatmakanejeeves Saturday #3