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By lesleydiack

Remembering Britain's worst air crash before Locke

Walking round Nellfield cemetery came across this memorial to a stewardess killed on a BEA flight in June 1972.

The BBC website had the following details of the story

1972: UK's worst air crash kills 118
All 118 people on board a flight from London Heathrow to Brussels have died when the airliner crashed minutes after take-off.
The British European Airways plane came down in a field in Staines, missing the town centre by just a few hundred yards. It is the worst disaster in British aviation history.

The Trident jet - which had been involved in another accident in 1968 - left Heathrow at 1708 BST and was only three miles (4.8 km) from the airport when witnesses said it "dropped out of the sky".

The airline said it did not know what had caused flight BE548 to crash, but BEA chairman Henry Marking told reporters there was "no reason" to suspect
sabotage.

The Air Accident office suspect that it was probably caused by the pilot suffering a heart attack.

Sad story ...

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