From THE TIMES Thursday January 14th 1954
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT LONDON AIRPORT, Jan 13
Another B.O.A.C. Comet airliner arrived
here this afternoon
for inspection, having flown the 8,000 miles from Singapore in 23hr.
21min. (Overall time
33hr. 35min.); it came swiftly out of a grey, wintry sky and made a
perfect touch down.
Well before first light to-day another Comet had returned without
passengers from
Johannesburg, and early tomorrow the airliner which has been taken out
of service in Tokyo
is expected to reach London. The B.O.A.C. will have all their
operational Comet
airliners at hand - it is the first time they have been assembled
together - and it is
hoped that careful inspection of them will help to explain the loss on
Sunday of the Comet
“Yoke Peter” over the Mediterranean.
At the B.O.A.C. maintenance base at the airport late this
afternoon work was
concentrated on two aircraft; one had 3,510 flying hours to its credit
and the other 3,471
hours which made them of particular interest as “Yoke Peter” had been
flying for
3,605 hours.
From THE TIMES Thursday January 14th 1954