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BSAA Star Dust accident
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BSAA Star Dust accident | BSAA Lancastrian 3 Star Dust. | Accident summary | Date | 2 August 1947 | Type | Controlled flight into terrain due to severe weather conditions[1][2] | Site | Mount Tupungato, Argentina | Passengers | 6 | Crew | 5 | Fatalities | 11 (all) | Survivors | 0 | Aircraft type | Avro Lancastrian | Operator | British South American Airways | Registration | G-AGWH | Flight origin | Morón Airport and Air Base(MOR/SADM),[3] Buenos Aires, Argentina | Destination | Los Cerrillos Airport (ULC/SCTI),[4]Santiago, Chile |
Star Dust (registration G-AGWH) was a British South American Airways (BSAA) Avro Lancastrian airliner which crashed into Mount Tupungato, in the Argentine Andes on 2 August 1947 during a flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago, Chile. A comprehensive search of a wide area (including what is now known to have been the crash site) was fruitless, and the fate of the aircraft and occupants remained unknown for over 50 years. An investigation in 2000 determined the crash was caused by weather-related factors,[1][2] but until then speculation included theories of international intrigue, intercorporate sabotage and even abduction by aliens.
In the late 1990s, pieces of wreckage from the missing aircraft began to emerge from the glacial ice. It is now assumed that the crew became confused as to their exact location while flying at high altitudes through the (then poorly understood) jet stream. Mistakenly believing they had already cleared the mountain tops before starting their descent –when in fact they were still behind cloud-covered peaks– Star Dust impacted Mount Tupungato, killing all aboard and burying itself in snow and ice.
The last word in Star Dust's final Morse Code transmission to Santiago airport, "STENDEC", was
BSAA Star Dust accident
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"Stendec" redirects here. For other uses, see Stendec (disambiguation).
BSAA Star Dust accident | BSAA Lancastrian 3 Star Dust. | Accident summary | Date | 2 August 1947 | Type | Controlled flight into terrain due to severe weather conditions[1][2] | Site | Mount Tupungato, Argentina | Passengers | 6 | Crew | 5 | Fatalities | 11 (all) | Survivors | 0 | Aircraft type | Avro Lancastrian | Operator | British South American Airways | Registration | G-AGWH | Flight origin | Morón Airport and Air Base(MOR/SADM),[3] Buenos Aires, Argentina | Destination | Los Cerrillos Airport (ULC/SCTI),[4]Santiago, Chile |
Star Dust (registration G-AGWH) was a British South American Airways (BSAA) Avro Lancastrian airliner which crashed into Mount Tupungato, in the Argentine Andes on 2 August 1947 during a flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago, Chile. A comprehensive search of a wide area (including what is now known to have been the crash site) was fruitless, and the fate of the aircraft and occupants remained unknown for over 50 years. An investigation in 2000 determined the crash was caused by weather-related factors,[1][2] but until then speculation included theories of international intrigue, intercorporate sabotage and even abduction by aliens.
In the late 1990s, pieces of wreckage from the missing aircraft began to emerge from the glacial ice. It is now assumed that the crew became confused as to their exact location while flying at high altitudes through the (then poorly understood) jet stream. Mistakenly believing they had already cleared the mountain tops before starting their descent –when in fact they were still behind cloud-covered peaks– Star Dust impacted Mount Tupungato, killing all aboard and burying itself in snow and ice.
The last word in Star Dust's final Morse Code transmission to Santiago airport, "STENDEC", was