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British European Airways, or BEA, was formed in 1946 by an Act of Parliament. The airline operated European and North African routes from airports around the United Kingdom. BEA was the largest domestic airline within the United Kingdom at the time, operating flights to major British cities, including London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Belfast and Glasgow.
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The airline was also the first customer for British short- and medium-haul airliners of the 1950s and 1960s, including the Vickers Viscount, Vickers Vanguard, BAC One-Eleven 500 and Hawker-Siddeley Trident. Image File history File linksMetadata British_Airways_747_landing_SFO,_crop. ... For the 1930s airline of similar name, see British Airways Ltd. ... Embraer RJ145 in British Airways utopia livery Pathania BA Connect is a fully owned subsidiary airline of British Airways. ... British Mediterranean Airways, trading as BMED, is an airline based at London Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom. ... Comair is an airline based in South Africa. ... GB Airways is an airline, and uncer a franchise agreement with British Airways. ... Loganair is an airline based at Glasgow International Airport (GLA) in Scotland. ... Sun Air of Scandinavia is an airline based in Denmark. ... British Airways flies to destinations on every inhabited continent. ... British Airways flies to destinations on every inhabited continent. ... The Imperial Airways Empire Terminal, Victoria, London. ... This article deals with the 1930s airline British Airways Ltd. ... British South American Airways (BSAA) was a British state-run airline of the 1940s. ... The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the exclusive British state airline from 1939 until 1946 and the long-haul British state airline from 1946. ... In 1997 British Airways adopted a new livery. ... This is a timeline of the history of British Airways plc (including the history of predecessor companies which influence its shape today). ... Evolution of the Speedbird logo to todays British Airways identity Speedbird is a callsign used by British Airways during air traffic control procedures, as well as the name for the famous stylized British Overseas Airways Corporation logo. ... The 1950s was the decade spanning from the 1st of January, 1950 to the 31st of December, 1959. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... The Viscount was a medium-range turboprop airliner introduced in 1953 by Vickers-Armstrongs, making it the first such aircraft to enter service in the world. ... The name Vanguard had earlier been used on a civilian model of the Vickers Virginia bomber, other versions of the same aircraft being the Victoria and Valentia. ... The BAC 1-11, or One-Eleven, was a short-range jet airliner designed by Hunting Aircraft and produced by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) after Hunting was merged with several other British aviation firms in 1960. ... Trident 1F The Trident, model DH121 or HS121, was a short/medium-range airliner designed by de Havilland in the 1950s, and built by the Hawker-Siddeley Group in the 1960s when de Havilland was merged, along with several other British aviation firms. ...

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Aircraft Operated

• Airspeed Ambassador
• BAC One-Eleven
• Boeing 707 (BEA Airtours)
• de Havilland Comet
• de Havilland Heron
• Douglas DC-3
• Hawker Siddeley Argosy
• Hawker Siddeley Trident 1C
• Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B
• Junkers Ju-52/3m
• Short Skyvan
• Vickers Vanguard
• Vickers Viking
• Vickers Viscount
• Westland Whirlwind (BEA Helicopters)

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Incidents and accidents

Hawker-Siddeley Trident 1C (G-ARPC), built 1962 and destroyed in a fire at London (Heathrow) Airport in 1975.

• On 5 January 1953, Vickers Viking G-AJDL crashed on approach to Belfast-Nutts Corner Airport due to error of judgement from pilot. All 27 on board died.
• On 14 March 1957, Flight "Beeline 411" operated by Vickers Viscount G-ALWE crashed on approach to Manchester Airport due to a flap failure caused by fatigue. All 20 occupants on board died and two on the ground.
• On 23 October 1957, Vickers Viscount G-AOJA crashed after overshooting on approach to Belfast-Nutts Corner Airport, cause not determined. All seven occupants died.
• Munich air disaster - on February 6, 1958, the British European Airways Flight "Beeline 609" crashed in a blizzard on its third attempt to take off from an icy runway at the Munich-Riem airport in Germany. On board the plane was the Manchester United football team, along with a number of supporters and journalists. Twenty-three of the 43 passengers on board the aircraft died in the disaster. The charter flight was operated by British European Airways with an Airspeed Ambassador G-ALZU 'Lord Burghley'.
• On 22 October 1958, Flight "Beeline 142" operated by Vickers Viscount G-ANHC was hit by an Italian Air Force F-86 Sabre and crashed with the loss of all 31 on board.
• On 21 December 1961, De Havilland Comet 4B G-ARJM stalled on take-off from Esenborga Airport, Ankara, Turkey. The aircraft was being operated for Cyprus Airways. The aircraft was destroyed with the loss of six crew and 20 passengers.
• On 27 October 1965, Vickers Vanguard G-APEE on a flight from Edingburgh crashed onto the runway during an approach in bad weather at London Heathrow Airport. All 36 on board died.
• On 12 October 1967, Flight "Beeline 284" operated by De Havilland Comet 4 G-ARCO on behalf of Cyprus Airways exploded in mid-air over the mediterranean and crashed into the sea with the loss of all 66 on board. Explosion was caused by a high exposive device under one of the passenger seats.
• On 2 October 1971, British European Airways Flight "Beeline 706", operated by Vickers Vanguard G-APEC, crashed near Aarsele, Belgium following a mid-air explosive decompresion caused by a fatigue failure. All 63 on board died.
• On 18 June 1972, British European Airways Flight "Beeline 548", operated by a British European Airways (BEA) Hawker Siddeley Trident 1C G-ARPI, crashed two minutes after takeoff from Heathrow Airport, killing all 118 passengers and crew on board. The crash occurred close to the town of Staines in Surrey, England.
• On 10 September 1976, British European Airways Flight "Beeline 476" operated by Trident 3B G-AWZT collided in mid-air with an Inex-Adria Aviopromet Douglas DC-9 near the city of Zagreb. All 176 aboard both aircraft died.

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Trivia

• The airline IATA code was BE with the callsign Beeline.

• On 10 June 1965 a BEA Trident 1 (G-ARPR) operating Flight "Beeline 343" from Paris to London Heathrow Airport, made the world's first fully-automatic landing of a commercial airliner with fare-paying passengers.

• The Beatles occasionally flew BEA. On one flight, Ringo Starr held a “TLES” sign next to the BEA logo on the airplane door, spelling out BEATLES.

The Beatles (with Brian Epstein) fly BEA to Paris in 1964.