1954 In Aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1954: Events * The United States Navy adopts the probe-and-drogue aerial refuelling system. January * January 6 – A Royal Air Force Vickers Valetta T3 carrying a rugby team crashes at Albury, Hertfordshire, England, in bad weather, killing 16 of the 17 people on board. * January 10 ** A de Havilland Comet 1, operating BOAC Flight 781, crashes into the Mediterranean Sea near Elba following fatigue failure, killing all 35 people aboard. Australian broadcast journalist Chester Wilmot is among the dead. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Italian history at the time. ** A chartered Grumman G-73 Mallard flying boat (registration N4949N) crashes due to atmospheric icing into woods along the north shore of Wallace Lake, southeast of Shreveport, Louisiana, while on approach to Shreveport Regional Airport, killing al 12 people on board. Thomas Elmer Braniff, co-founder of Braniff Airways, is among the dead. * January 11 ...
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