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The Credibility Of The BEA548: Airline Pilots

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On Sunday, June 18th, 1972, flight BEA548 took off from London's Heathrow Airport and shortly after take-off, the plane crashed killing all 118 people aboard the flight. The flight crew composed of captain Stanley Key as pilot 1, Jeremy Keighley as pilot 2, and Simon Ticehurst as pilot 3. Captain Stanley Key was the most senior pilot on the flight as he had 15,000 hours of flying experience, the second pilot Jeremy Keighley was new to flying and only had 30 hours of experience and the final member of the flight crew, Simone Ticehurst had over 1400 hours of flying experience. At approximately 15:20 the flight attendants started to board everyone onto the Trident airplane as their schedule time for departure was 15:45. Shortly after taking off,
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