Originally Posted by
blind pew
Was on the VC10 when North East was merged so no idea although great entertainment as most BEA pilots believed that their monitored approach was the dogs, North East and BOAC both had similar and in my view a much better procedure as did SR. The argument continues 40 years on and it’s a great sport suggesting that BEA got it wrong, didn’t do the first commercial blind auto landing and taught the world how to fly. It always goes quiet if I remind them of the accident history.
Does that mean that Wiki is wrong when it says that: "
The first such landing in a BEA Trident was achieved at RAE Bedford (by then home of BLEU) in March 1964. The first on a commercial flight with passengers aboard was achieved on flight BE 343 on 10 June 1965, with a Trident 1 G-ARPR, from Paris to Heathrow with Captains Eric Poole and Frank Ormonroyd."
Was BEA's accident rate any worse than those of its contemporaries?