Accident | |
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Date | 5 March 1966 |
Summary | In-flight break-up caused by severe turbulence |
Site | Mount Fuji, Japan 35°19′59″N 138°48′17″E / 35.33306°N 138.80472°E |
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, UK |
1st stopover | Montréal–Trudeau International Airport (at the time called, Dorval Airport), Montreal, Canada |
2nd stopover | San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California, US |
3rd stopover | Honolulu International Airport, Honolulu, Hawaii, US |
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 flying the route disintegrated mid-air shortly after departing from Tokyo Haneda Airport as a result of severe clear-air turbulence.
The crash of Flight 911 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]