Airplane Crash - Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland 12/25/1954
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland
| Date | 12/25/1954 |
| Location | Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Operator | British Overseas Airways |
| Route | London - Glasgow |
| Type | Boeing B377-10-28 Stratocruiser |
| Registration | G-ALSA |
| Cn/In | 15943 |
| Aboard | 36 |
| Fatalities | 28 |
| Ground | 0 |
| Summary | Crashed short of the runway, landing hard. Pilot error. Errors of judgement on the part of the captain in starting his final approach to land at too steep an angle and flaring out too late and too severely with the result that the aircraft sank and hit the ground short of the runway. |
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