BOAC Flight 781
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BOAC Flight 781 was a de Havilland Comet passenger jet operated by British Overseas Airways Corporation that on 10 January 1954 crashed into the sea near Elba Island, off the Italian coast, after suffering an explosive decompression at altitude. All 35 people on board were killed. The aircraft, registered G-ALYP, had taken off shortly before from Ciampino Airport in Rome, en route to Heathrow Airport in London, on the final leg of its flight from Singapore.
G-ALYP was the third Comet built. Its loss marked the second in a series of three fatal accidents in twelve months caused by structural failures involving the Comet, after the crash of BOAC Flight 783 near Calcutta, India, in May 1953, and followed by the loss of South African Airways Flight 201 in April 1954, crashed in circumstances similar to BOAC 781 after departing from Ciampino.
