| Date: | Sunday 21 June 1959 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4 |
| Owner/operator: | British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC |
| Registration: | G-APDB |
| MSN: | 6403 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1958 |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Avon 524 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 43 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | New York-Idlewild International Airport, NY (IDL) -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger |
| Departure airport: | |
| New York-Idlewild International Airport, NY (IDL/KIDL) |
During the final approach to land on a runway with a displaced threshold the aircraft struck a 12ft-high blast fence located 65ft short of the beginning of the paved area. Although the main landing gear and flaps were damaged the aircraft landed safely.
Sources:
Flight, 8 June 1961
Flight, 3 Feb. 1961
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 22 August 1960 | G-APDB | British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC | 0 | Cairo International Airport (CAI) |  |
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