Munich accident 1958
50 years ago today.
The Airspeed Ambassador was coming out of BEA service at the time, they had been in service only a few years but were all withdrawn by 6 months after the accident. Wondering why the type was used for the flight instead of a Viscount, which BEA had a very large fleet of by 1958.
Was it just there were plenty of spare ones around for the charter ?
Was no turbine fuel available at Belgrade ? There were no other turbine operators scheduled into Belgrade in 1958.
Was the end of the Ambassador hastened as a type with BEA due to the adverse publicity ? Actually all the contemporary news articles I have seen call it an "Elizabethan", the BEA class name (at the time BEA used their own aircraft type names rather than those of the manufacturer for several types). I doubt many of the subsequent passengers knew the connection.