British European Airways Flight 226

On 21 December 1961, a serious aviation accident occurred on this flight when the pilots lost control of the de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4B aircraft shortly after take-off from Ankara Esenboğa Airport.The four-engine long-haul[citation needed] aircraft was equipped with four Rolls-Royce Avon 503 jet engines.The ground time between landing and taking off again for the onward flight to Nicosia was 46 minutes.The takeoff ran until reaching the rotation point was normal in terms of the speeds achieved and the duration.The plane fell flat to the ground and impacted 1,600 meters from the tower on a heading of 214 degrees at 11:43 p.m. local time.

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