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Old 30th Apr 2005, 12:09
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Eric Mc
 
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The loss of Papa India was instrumental in Voice Recorders becoming compulsory on British registered airliners.

BEA lost a number of aircraft over its lifetime (1946 to 1974). I know one of its De Havilland Herons crashed in Scotland in the early 1960s, it also lost a Viscount in Scotland around 1973 and another Vanguard had its tail fall off resulting in a fatal nosedive in Ghent in 1971/72.

The Heathrow Vanguard crash was in 1966.

I always think that the Ghent Vanguard accident is almost completely forgotten about these days.
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