BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet 1 (the first commercial jet airliner) was a flight between Singapore and London with a stopover in Rome on January 10, 1954 with 35 people on board.

The Crash:
The engineers in Rome looked for any damaged but did not find any so they decided that the jet was fit for flight. The aircraft took off from Rome at 10:31am. At 10:51am, the pilots of Flight 781 were in contact with another aircraft. Shortly after, an in-flight metal fatigue caused an explosive decompression which lead the plane to breakup in flames and crash into pieces into the Mediterranean Sea. All on board perished in the breakup.

All videos are from Seconds from Disaster: Crash of the Comet (S03E08)

Music: Lucas King - Desolate

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