British Eagle International Airlines Flight 802 [SEP] point in time
British Eagle International Airlines Flight 802
On Saturday, 29 February 1964, British Eagle International Airlines Flight 802 crashed into the Glungezer mountain near Innsbruck, Austria. The aircraft, a Bristol Britannia registered G-AOVO, had taken off from London Heathrow Airport, England, destined for Innsbruck Kranebitten Airport in Austria. All 75 passengers and 8 crew died in the crash.
The crash.
Flight 802 was an international scheduled passenger flight which took off from London Heathrow Airport at 12:04 p.m. bound for Innsbruck. The aircraft was
failure. The Viscount turboprop airplane was en route from London to Innsbruck (in Austria); four years earlier, on February 29, 1964, all 83 people on a flight with the same number, British Eagle International Airlines Flight 802, crashed into a mountain on another London to Innsbruck flight. British Eagle would go out of business shortly after the crash of the second Flight 802.
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