BOAC Comet 1 Crash - Elba - G-ALYP - Crew Photos
I met by co-incidence the daughter of the BOAC steward who was killed on the infamous Comet disintegration near Elba
(not?) Surprisingly she new very little about the detail surrounding the crash and subsequent history, and was recently rather upset to see a recent documentary uncovering documents which showed DH had told Ministry of Supply about their concerns for structural fatigue...
Anyway I managed to find a copy of the Accident Report and Findings which gave a lot of technical detail and did name her father...there seems to be many references to pictures of passengers and crew boarding in Rome on many of the press excerpts from the time...it would be nice to find this set of pictures as it will no doubt show her father (who was lost when she was 6)...any ideas, it was one of a series of promtional flights? BA archives, BAe (DH) archives?
As a matter of interest they never found his body, they offered some time later to fly the mother only out to see the memorial in Elba but she refused, understandably not wanting to fly...all his family received was a small payout from the Industrial Injuries Compensation Fund and all they got from BOAC was a set of candlesticks! If it had not been for a seperate personal insurance policy and moving in with relatives the family apparently would have been destitute.