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South African Airways Flight 201

Index South African Airways Flight 201

South African Airways Flight 201 (SA201), a de Havilland Comet 1, took off at 18:32 UTC on 8 April 1954 from Ciampino Airport in Rome, Italy en route to Cairo, Egypt, on the second stage of its flight from London, England to Johannesburg, South Africa. [1]

41 relations: Aircraft carrier, Airspeed Ambassador, Airworthiness certificate, Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, Allied Military phonetic spelling alphabets, BBC, BOAC Flight 781, British European Airways, British Overseas Airways Corporation, Cairo, Cairo International Airport, China Airlines Flight 611, Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport, Coordinated Universal Time, De Havilland Comet, Discovery (Canada), Estimated time of arrival, Fatigue (material), Heathrow Airport, High frequency, Jet engine, Johannesburg, Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen, List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft, List of structural failures and collapses, London, Mayday (Canadian TV series), Naples, National Geographic (U.S. TV channel), National Transportation Safety Board, O. R. Tambo International Airport, Ostia (Rome), Ponza, Rome, Royal Navy, Seconds From Disaster, South African Airways, Stromboli, The New York Times, Turbine, Uncontrolled decompression.

Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.

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Airspeed Ambassador

The Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador was a British twin piston-engined airliner that first flew on 10 July 1947 and served in small numbers through the 1950s and 1960s.

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Airworthiness certificate

A Certificate of Airworthiness is a permit for operation, issued for an aircraft by the national aviation authority in the state/nation in which the aircraft is registered.

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Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton

Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, CH, PC, DL (18 November 1904 – 8 March 1983) was a British Conservative politician.

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Allied Military phonetic spelling alphabets

The Allied military radiotelephone spelling alphabets were created beginning prior to World War I and evolved separately in the United States and Great Britain (and separately among each countries' separate military services), until being merged during World War II.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BOAC Flight 781

BOAC Flight 781 was a de Havilland Comet passenger jet operated by British Overseas Airways Corporation that on 10 January 1954 crashed into the sea near Elba Island, off the Italian coast, after suffering an explosive decompression at altitude.

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British European Airways

British European Airways (BEA), formally British European Airways Corporation, was a British airline which existed from 1946 until 1974.

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British Overseas Airways Corporation

British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned airline created in 1940 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd.

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Cairo

Cairo (القاهرة) is the capital of Egypt.

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Cairo International Airport

Cairo International Airport (Arabic:; Maṭār El Qāhira El Dawly) is the international airport of Cairo and the busiest airport in Egypt and serves as the primary hub for EgyptAir, EgyptAir Express and Nile Air as well as several other airlines.

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China Airlines Flight 611

China Airlines Flight 611 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (now Taoyuan International Airport) in Taiwan to Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong.

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Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport

Ciampino–G.

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Coordinated Universal Time

No description.

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De Havilland Comet

The de Havilland DH 106 Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner.

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Discovery (Canada)

Discovery is a Canadian English language Category A cable and satellite specialty channel that is owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc.

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Estimated time of arrival

The estimated time of arrival (ETA) is the time when a ship, vehicle, aircraft, cargo or emergency service is expected to arrive at a certain place.

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Fatigue (material)

In materials science, fatigue is the weakening of a material caused by repeatedly applied loads.

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Heathrow Airport

Heathrow Airport (also known as London Heathrow) is a major international airport in London, United Kingdom.

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High frequency

High frequency (HF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) between 3 and 30 megahertz (MHz).

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Jet engine

A jet engine is a type of reaction engine discharging a fast-moving jet that generates thrust by jet propulsion.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

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Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen

Lionel Leonard Cohen, Baron Cohen PC (1 March 1888 – 9 May 1973), was a British judge.

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List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft

This article is a list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft and is grouped by the years in which the accidents and incidents occurred.

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List of structural failures and collapses

This is a list of structural failures and collapses, including some aircraft, bridges, dams, and radio masts/towers.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Mayday (Canadian TV series)

Mayday, also known as Air Crash Investigation in Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom, Asia, and some European countries, and Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the United States (both ended in 2008), is a Canadian documentary television program investigating air crashes, near-crashes, hijackings, bombings, and other disasters.

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Naples

Naples (Napoli, Napule or; Neapolis; lit) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest municipality in Italy after Rome and Milan.

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National Geographic (U.S. TV channel)

National Geographic (formerly National Geographic Channel and also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV) is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by National Geographic Partners, majority-owned by 21st Century Fox with the remainder owned by the National Geographic Society.

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National Transportation Safety Board

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation.

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O. R. Tambo International Airport

O.

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Ostia (Rome)

Ostia is a large neighbourhood in the X Municipio of the commune of Rome, Italy, near the ancient port of Rome, named Ostia, which is now a major archaeological site known as Ostia Antica.

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Ponza

Ponza (Italian: isola di Ponza) is the largest island of the Italian Pontine Islands archipelago, located south of Cape Circeo in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Seconds From Disaster

Seconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters of the 20th century.

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South African Airways

South African Airways (SAA) is the flag carrier airline of South Africa.

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Stromboli

Stromboli (Struògnuli, Ancient Greek: Στρογγύλη, Strongulē) is a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing one of the three active volcanoes in Italy.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Turbine

A turbine (from the Latin turbo, a vortex, related to the Greek τύρβη, tyrbē, meaning "turbulence") is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work.

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Uncontrolled decompression

Uncontrolled decompression is an unplanned drop in the pressure of a sealed system, such as an aircraft cabin or hyperbaric chamber, and typically results from human error, material fatigue, engineering failure, or impact, causing a pressure vessel to vent into its lower-pressure surroundings or fail to pressurize at all.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Airways_Flight_201

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