As the doors were about to close, Coleman asked Key to accommodate a BEA flight crew that had to collect a Merchantman aircraft from Brussels. Coastal Beverage Ltd. Is a family owned distributor of Anheuser-Busch, Constellation and a diverse variety of craft beer products, Wine, Tea & Seltzer. Another recommendation was for greater caution before allowing off-duty crew members to occupy flight deck seats. Shortly afterwards, BE 548 reported passing 1,500 feet (460m) above ground level and was re-cleared to climb to 6,000 feet (1,800m). Tricehusrt and Keighley were young, inexperienced pilots while Key and Crews often referred to both types as 'droops'. Crews were also trained in stalls which He is building up his hours in the cockpit with hopes of earning his PPL sometime in the future. 1187925.7709999999 1187925.7709999999. Speaking in the House of Commons, Minister for Aerospace and Shipping Michael Heseltine paid tribute to the work done by Mr Justice Lane, Sir Morien Morgan and Captain Jessop for the work they had carried out during the inquiry into the accident.[71]. The additional weight of the three crew members necessitated the removal of a quantity of mail and freight from the Trident to ensure its total weight (less fuel) did not exceed the permitted maximum of 41,730 kilograms (92,000lb). The reason is thought to be a stall, to which the Trident was prone unless the flaps were operated correctly. British European Airways Flight 548 was a scheduled passenger flight from London Heathrow to Brussels that crashed near Staines, Surrey, England, soon after take-off on 18 June 1972, killing all 118 people on board.The accident became known as the Staines air disaster.As of 2022, it remains the deadliest air accident (as opposed to terrorist incidents) in the United Kingdom and was the . One second later, the stall warning and recovery system was over-ridden by a flight crew member. They died when a BEA Trident airliner ploughed into waste ground only a few yards from the Staines bypass on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport-London. [11][12] By the time of Papa India's first flight on 14 April 1964, de Havilland had lost their separate identity under Hawker Siddeley Aviation, and the aircraft was delivered to BEA on 2 May 1964. officer Jeremy Keighley, a new BEA pilot All 118 persons on board were killed. [45], At 16:10:43 (133 seconds), the Trident entered a deep stall. [55] In such inquiries, AIB inspectors were on an equal footing with all other parties, and the ultimate reports were not drafted by them, but by the Commissioner and his or her Assessors. [22], In a further near-accident, a Trident 2E, G-AVFH, climbing away from London Heathrow for Naples in May 1970 experienced what was claimed by its flight crew to have been a spontaneous uncommanded retraction of the leading-edge slats which was initially unnoticed by any of them. Until last night, the worst air disaster in Britain was in March, 1950, when an Avro Tudor crashed in Glamorgan, killing 80 passengers and crew. The impact broke the planes spine, ripping off the tail section and sending it spinning through the air. Some observers felt that the inquiry was unduly biased in favour of the aircraft's manufacturers. I found myself reading up on BEA Flight 548 today to . Posted: Friday, June 30th, 2000. concluded that this tear was a result of Flight BE548 was a scheduled passenger service from London to Brussels. A few hours before the flight, Captain Key was involved in an extremely heated debate with one of his BEA colleagues in the crew room about pilot strikes which were brewing at the time. The accident became known as the Staines air disaster and, as of 2019, remains the deadliest air accident (as opposed to terrorist incidents) in the United Kingdom. It was widely believed by BEA pilots Another recommendation was for greater caution before allowing off-duty crew members to occupy flight deck seats. The increased speed or immediately BEA flight 548 fell out of the sky almost vertically, spearing into the ground tail-first and narrowly missing a set of power lines. separation of the tail. [citation needed] [31] [32], Among the passengers were 29 Americans, 29 Belgians, 28 Britons, 12 Irish, four South Africans and three Canadians. Heathrow aircraft control sounded the full-scale disaster alert, and all airport emergency appliances, together with all available fire engines, ambulances, and police patrol cars for eight miles around sped to the scene. [13] The Trident I was equipped with three interconnected high-lift devices on each wing leading edgetwo leading-edge droop flaps outboard and a Krueger flap on the section closest to the fuselage. Two hours after the crash, all roads in the area were jammed by traffic. [Archive] BEA Flight 548: Staines Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning.