#british airtours

[pretty-little-fools]

[scottsbifh]

A British Airtours Lockheed Tristar seen here in this photo at London Gatwick Airport in January 1983. photo - Tim Rees. - Posted to X Planes…..and classics @ClassicsPlanes

[airsllides]

airsLLide No. 10033: N504EA, Boeing 757-225, ex Eastern Air Lines, Las Vegas-McCarran, December 31, 1993.

Almost three years have already passed since Eastern Air Lines' demise when three of its very early production Boeing 757s still await their future in the dry Nevada desert climate. A future they will find within another year:

N504EA in front, Boeing 757 line-number 5, will go to British leisure carrier Airtours International, later MyTravel Airways, as G-JALC in January 1995 and serve it until 2005 when Honeywell buys and converts her to an inflight test-bed and laboratory. As N757HW she is still active to the present day.

N501EA in the middle, Boeing 757 line-number 2, will find employment with NASA as N557NA sometime in 1994, where she is used for atmospheric and environmental research duties.

N505EA in the back, Boeing 757 line-number 6, will keep her sister N504EA company and also migrate to the UK to fly for Airtours International and MyTravel Airways, carrying the tailmark G-PIDS, until retired and sold for parts to the US in 2006.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 8.22 (after 1900)

1902 – The Cadillac Motor Company is founded. 1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile. 1902 – At least 6,000 people are killed by the magnitude 7.7 Kashgar earthquake in the Tien Shan mountains. 1922 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War. 1934 – Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only test cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes. 1941 – World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad. 1942 – Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy. 1944 – World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces. 1949 – The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake. 1953 – The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed. 1962 – The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. 1963 – X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)). 1965 – Juan Marichal, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, strikes John Roseboro, catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, on the head with a bat, sparking a 14-minute brawl, one of the most violent on-field incidents in sports history. 1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), the predecessor of the United Farm Workers. 1968 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America. 1971 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28. 1972 – Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies. 1973 – The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections. 1978 – Nicaraguan Revolution: The FLSN seizes the National Congress of Nicaragua, along with over a thousand hostages. 1978 – The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress, although it is never ratified by a sufficient number of states. 1981 – Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes in Sanyi Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan. All 110 people on board are killed. 1985 – British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation. 1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts. 1991 – Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states. 1992 – FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. 1999 – China Airlines Flight 642 crashes at Hong Kong International Airport, killing three people and injuring 208 more. 2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building. 2004 – Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. 2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board. 2006 – Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal. 2007 – The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history. 2012 – Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.

[dealthorpakp]

27 août 1985 Visite aux survivants de la catastrophe aérienne de Manchester après un incendie à bord du 737 Jetliner de British Airtours à l'hôpital de Wythenshawe dans le Grand Manchester de Wythenshawe

[news4trafford]

The one Manchester air disaster not many people know about

Most people can remember the British Airtours disaster at Manchester Airport in 1985 where sadly 55 passengers died but not many know about the one in Wythenshawe. The BAE (British Eueopean Airways) flight 411 was on route from Amsterdam to Manchester on 14 March 1957, it seemed all was going well until only a mile from the Manchester Airport runway the aircraft suddenly turned and banked to the…

[arcanumblog]

“Starlite”, o de cómo la Humanidad perdió un material que podría haber cambiado la Historia

1. El increíble invento de un hombre normal El 22 de agosto de 1985 a las 6:12 de la mañana, hora local, un vuelo comercial de la empresa British Airtours se incendió durante el despegue. El vuelo se dirigía a la isla griega de Corfu desde el Aeropuerto Internacional de Manchester: aunque se trató de […]“Starlite”, o de cómo la Humanidad perdió un material que podría haber cambiado la Historia

[airmanisr]

Cockpit of Boeing 707-436 [G-APFG] by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n 17708, l/n 128 Built 1960 for BOAC as G-APFG. Leased to BEA Airtours in March 1973 and transferred to the merged and renamed British Airtours in April 1974. Sold to Aviation Traders in 1981 and was stored at Stansted until dismantled in 1989. The fuselage was used for fire suppression tests at Cardington until 1991 when it was finally broken up. The cockpit was saved and is now on display as part of the South Wales Aviation Museum. St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK 12th June 2021

[mrb52563]

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[yhwhrulz]

Today's selected anniversaries:

1711:

Queen Anne's War: A British attempt to attack Quebec failed when eight ships wrecked on the St. Lawrence River. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Expedition

1851:

The yacht America won the Cup of One Hundred Sovereigns race, later renamed the America's Cup, near the Isle of Wight, England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1851_America%27s_Cup

1961:

Ida Siekmann jumped from a window in her tenement building trying to flee to West Berlin, becoming the first person to die at the Berlin Wall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Siekmann

1985:

A fire broke out on British Airtours Flight 28M, causing 55 deaths mostly due to smoke inhalation and bringing about changes to make aircraft evacuation more effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airtours_Flight_28M

[a380flightdeck]

2017: The Safest Year in Aviation History

ZERO. Of the more than two billion people who flew last year worldwide, that’s the number who were killed in commercial airline accidents. Nobody. Thus 2017 becomes the safest year in the history of civil aviation.  

It was 2013 that held that honor previously, but the fact is that flying has become so safe that year-over-year comparisons are increasingly academic. Instead of playing the same game every January, it’s better to look from a wider, more macro perspective. What we see is a trend that began about thirty years ago, and has since reached the point where air safety, as we know it, and what we now expect of it, has been radically transformed.

It’s a little like global warming: the entire paradigm has shifted, with every year squeaking just ahead of the previous one as the new record-breaker. Disasters still occur from time to time (see Malaysia Airlines), and there are ups and downs of statistical correction. But the safety bar, so to speak, is in a totally different place.

There are so many intriguing ways to quantify this. And while this is a global story that airlines the world over can be proud of, here are four statistics that Americans, in particular, can savor:

1. The last fatal airliner accident on U.S. soil was the Asiana Airlines crash landing in San Francisco in 2013. Three teenage girls were killed in that incident, one of whom was struck by a rescue vehicle.

2. The last fatal accident involving a U.S. carrier of any kind was the Colgan Air (Continental Connection) tragedy outside Buffalo, in 2009, in which fifty people were killed.

3. The last fatality involving a U.S. major carrier was a Southwest Airlines mishap in Chicago in 2005, in which a 737 slid from a snowy runway and collided with a car, killing a young boy.

4. And perhaps the most remarkable stat of them all is this one: the last fatal accident involving one of the “big three” U.S. majors — that’s American, United, and Delta — was, — wait for it now — the crash of American flight 587 in November, 2001. That’s right, sixteen years ago. Not all that long ago, the idea that our biggest airlines, each of which records thousands of departures every day of the week, could, combined, go the better part of two decades without a single crash, would have been unthinkable. This is arguably the most impressive accomplishment in American aviation history.

It wasn’t always like this.

In decades past, one or two crashes every year involving one or more of the mainline U.S. carriers was considered normal, even expected. And in other regions of the globe the numbers could be staggering.

Consider for a moment the year 1985. During that one year, 27 major crashes around the world resulted in the deaths of almost 2,400 people! These included the Air-India bombing over the North Atlantic, with 329 casualties, and, two months later, the crash of Japan Airlines flight 123 outside Tokyo, with 520 dead. These, the second and fifth-most deadly accidents in aviation history, happened 49 days apart! Also in ’85 were the Arrow Air disaster in Newfoundland that killed 240 U.S. servicemen, the infamous British Airtours 737 fire, and the crash of an L-1011 in Dallas that killed 137.

And we’re still not finished. 1985 was also the year of the TWA flight 847 hijacking.

Sure, that was an unusually bad twelve months, but it wasn’t entirely out of synch with how things used to be.

When I was in sixth grade, I started keeping newspaper clippings of plane crashes. Whenever there was an accident, anywhere in the world, I would snip the related articles from the paper and put them into a shirt box. By the end of junior high, that box was jammed full. Six, nine, ten, even a dozen catastrophes every year had been the norm.

The big question is, how did we get here?  

No, it has nothing to do with Donald Trump, who this week shocked absolutely nobody by taking credit for the good news in a typically preposterous Twitter message. “Since taking office I have been very strict on commercial aviation,” Trump tweeted. Whatever measures he’s referring to, of course, exist only in his imagination, and are better left unexplored.

There are three very real things, on the other hand, we can thank for this reality, all of which precede Trump’s presidency:

The first is better crew training: the advent of crew resource management (CRM), for example, and substantial enhancements to cockpit culture, hierarchy and oversight.

Almost as critical has been a raft of improved aircraft technologies: things like TCAS, enhanced GPWS, windshear detection, cargo fire suppression, and so on.

And thirdly — and naive as this will sound to some — we’ve had the collaborative efforts between air carriers, regulators, and organizations like ICAO, ALPA, and other advocacy groups. The specifics here are varied and expansive, from the standardization of runway markings and air traffic control protocols to substance abuse programs. These people and organizations, often with very conflicting missions and priorities, have, for the most part figured out a way to work together.

And, okay, we’ve been lucky, too. I’ve been knocking on wood since the first paragraph. And a dearth of headline tragedies does not mean we should rest on our laurels. Complacency is about the worst response we could have. Air safety is all about being proactive — even a little cynical. We need to keep this going.  

A quarter century ago, as air travel was beginning to grow rapidly, and the world’s airfleet was expected to double or even triple (it since has, and may do so again in our lifetimes), experts warned of a tipping point. Unless certain deficiencies were addressed, we were told, disasters would become epidemic. Some of the scarier analyses were predicting a major crash occurring every week by the early 2000s. Fortunately they were addressed, and the end result is that we’ve effectively engineered away what used to be the most common causes of crashes.

Indeed the global-ness of this trend has been maybe its most notable aspect. It’s one thing that planes aren’t crashing in the U.S. or Europe, but they’re not crashing anywhere, really. Not in India or China, where aviation has been growing exponentially and where the highest levels of concern were. Not in Asia, not in Africa, not in South America.  Are all these regions equally safe? Of course not. But they’re all safe.  

It’s a little ironic, too, for a couple of reasons:

For one, surfing the Web or clicking on the television, you almost wouldn’t know that any of this has happened.  On the contrary, the media’s habit — and by media I’m referring to both commercial and social media — of over-hyping and over-dramatizing even the most minor malfunction or precautionary landing, has convinced many people that accidents are in fact happening more frequently, and that flying has become more dangerous, when exactly the opposite is true.

And then we have people’s attitudes toward flying in general. It’s hard to overestimate the levels of hate and contempt people have for the airlines, and while a lot of that sentiment is well-earned, let’s take a minute to acknowledge the enormous strides they’ve made when comes to what is arguably the most important metric of them all.  

Say what you want about flying; there’s no denying that it’s become vastly safer. And this new normal is something we can all, well, live with.

[pretty-little-fools]

[airsllides]

airsLLide No. 838: G-BBAE, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 1, British Airtours, Geneva, March 7, 1987.

Yet another example of a typical European leisure subsidiary: British Airtours was formed in 1970 by then BEA British European Airways under the BEA Airtours brand, explaining the radio call sign «Beatours» the carrier kept through the merger of BEA and BOAC British Overseas Airways Co. that formed her parent to present day British Airways.

With that merger of 1974, BEA Airtours was rebranded into British Airtours. According to demand and long term fleet plans, some aircraft for intra European and for intercontinental routes were occasionally swapped between parent and subsidiary, since both relied on the same models. That applied to G-BBAE as well that began her flying career in 1974 with the newly formed British Airways. She was transferred on lease to British Airtours in 1985.

When British Airways bought competitor BCAL British Caledonian Airways in 1988, British Airtours was quickly rebranded into Caledonian Airways, retaining the BCAL logo of the Rampant Lyon. G-BBAE too would receive the new brand and retain it until her withdrawal in late October 1999. Thus, she would narrowly miss her carrier's next rebranding: After Thomas Cook took over Caledonian from BA in 1999, it renamed it into JMC Air in March 2000.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 8.22 (after 1940)

1941 – World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad. 1942 – Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy. 1944 – World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces. 1949 – The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake. 1953 – The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed. 1962 – The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. 1963 – X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)). 1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), the predecessor of the United Farm Workers. 1968 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America. 1971 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28. 1972 – Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies. 1973 – The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections. 1978 – Nicaraguan Revolution: The FLSN seizes the National Congress of Nicaragua, along with over a thousand hostages. 1978 – The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress, although it is never ratified by a sufficient number of states. 1981 – Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes in Sanyi Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan. All 110 people on board are killed. 1985 – British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation. 1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts. 1991 – Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states. 1992 – FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. 1999 – China Airlines Flight 642 crashes at Hong Kong International Airport, killing three people and injuring 208 more. 2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building. 2004 – Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. 2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board. 2006 – Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal. 2007 – The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history. 2012 – Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.

[news4trafford]

We remember: One of the biggest aviation disasters in Manchester

We remember: One of the biggest aviation disasters in Manchester

As we come up to the day 36 years ago we remember those that perished on board an aircraft bound for Corfu. On 22 August 1985 just before 7 am British Airtours 737 was starting to get ready for the trip to corfu with 131 passengers and 7 crew members on board the 737-200 Boeing aircraft with a superb safety record when it started to roll down the runway at break neck speed a loud bang was…

[greenfoottravels]

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