Statuts:
Date:	25 DEC 1954
Type/Sous-type:	Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-28
Compagnie:	BOAC
Immatriculation:	G-ALSA
Numéro de série:	15943
Année de Fabrication:	1949
Equipage:	victimes: 4 / à bord: 11
Passagers:	victimes: 24 / à bord: 25
Total:	victimes: 28 / à bord: 36
Dégats de l'appareil:	Perte Totale
Conséquences:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Lieu de l'accident:	près de Glasgow-Prestwick Airport (PIK) (Royaume Uni)
Phase de vol:	A l'atterrissage (LDG)
Nature:	Transport de Passagers Nat.
Aéroport de départ:	London (unknown airport), Royaume Uni
Aéroport de destination:	Glasgow-Prestwick Airport (PIK/EGPK), Royaume Uni

Détails:
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."

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