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The Crash of the Comet MK 1 Jet Airliner Karachi 1953

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Uploaded by on May 29, 2011

On March 2, 1953, Captain Clarence North Sawle was co-pilot of the CPA De Havilland Comet Mark 1 passenger jet airliner on it's delivery flight. But the plane had serveral defects and crashed on take off at Karachi, Pakistan. This account is one chapter in The Sawle Family Story produced by Cory Bretz of Heirloom Films and Storybooks and commissioned by Sawle's daughter, Linda Redmond.
See other Parts of this film at www.heirloomfilms.ca.

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  • Canadian Pacific Airlines actually had an order in for two Comets. But after the first one crashed, they cancelled the order for the second one.

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  • Nicely done video.

  • It is amazing today to find that BOAC was not the only customer for the Comet.

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