When the jet engine became a practical and powerful key to commercial flight, Britain played a large role in that push. De Havilland's influential DH.106 Comet, a prototype that arrived in July 1949, ...

Lagos — The BAC 1-11 aircraft, which has been suspended by the federal Government, was manufactured by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC), a government forced merger of Vickers, English Electric ...

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In the aftermath of the May 4 crash of an EAS BAC 1-11 plane in Gwammaja, Kano in which over 140 lives perished, the federal government announced a ban on the use of BAC 1-11 type of aircraft in the ...

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Amazing pictures show a jetliner being transported through a city centre. Needless to say, it left onlookers bemused. The front half of the BAC 1-11 was hauled through the streets of Southampton on ...