Estado:
Fecha:	25 DIC 1954
Tipo:	Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-28
Operador:	BOAC
Registración:	G-ALSA
Numéro de série:	15943
Año de Construcción:	1949
Tripulación:	Fatalidades: 4 / Ocupantes: 11
Pasajeros:	Fatalidades: 24 / Ocupantes: 25
Total:	Fatalidades: 28 / Ocupantes: 36
Daños en la Aeronave:	Anulado
Consecuencias:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Ubicación:	cerca Glasgow-Prestwick Airport (PIK) (Reino Unido)
Fase:	Aterrizaje (LDG)
Naturaleza:	Vuelo Doméstico Programado
Aeropuerto de Salida:	London (unknown airport), Reino Unido
Aeropuerto de Llegada:	Glasgow-Prestwick Airport (PIK/EGPK), Reino Unido

Descripción:
The Stratocruiser was high on the approach to Prestwick. The aircraft entered a steep descent, but flare out came too late. Following a heavy landing, the plane ran onto the runway, became airborne and crashed.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "Errors of judgement on the part of the captain in a) starting his final approach to land at too steep an angle and b) flaring out too late and too severely with the result that the aircraft sank and hit the ground short of the runway. During the flare out the aircraft passed through low cloud, thus reducing the captain's visibility. The accident was also contributed to by the failure of the first officer to carry out the order of the captain to put on the landing lights which prevented the captain from observing timeously the low cloud over the approach lights."

Fuentes:
» ICAO Accident Digest, Circular 47-AN/42 (211-219)