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| Date: | Wednesday 15 July 1953 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH-106 Comet 1 |
| Owner/operator: | BOAC |
| Registration: | G-ALYY |
| MSN: | 06011 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1952 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 43 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Location: | Juhu Aerodrome, Mumbai -
 India
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | KHI |
| BOM |
The plane mistakenly landed at Juhu Aerodrome, instead of the Santacruz airport in Bombay(now Mumbai). The aircraft was flown out 9 days later.
Sources:
https://www.thirdamendment.com/WrongWay.pdf
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CgJFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZbcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3821,1430385
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 8 April 1954 | G-ALYY | South African Airways - SAA, lsf BOAC | 21 | ca 17 km W off San Lucido |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 20-Feb-2025 19:18 | ndegaon | Added |
| 20-Feb-2025 19:18 | ASN | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, ] |
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