Route of BOAC Flight 712

Kov · Post by **Kov** » 31 Jul 2007, 14:36

Hi everybody,

BOAC flight 712 was a Heathrow to Sidney service with the first intermediate stop at Zurich. As it was served with B707-420 there should have been some more stops. Does anybody know where they were?

Thanks and regards

Jakov

blanston12 · Post by **blanston12** » 31 Jul 2007, 15:18

Two answers for you

In 1961 BA712 went from London, Dusseldorf, Beirut, Bahrain, Bombay, Columbo, Singapore, Jakarta, Darwin, Sydney.

In 1969 BA712 went from London, Zurich, Rome, Karachi, Calcutta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Darwin, Sydney.

Post by **Garry Russell** » 31 Jul 2007, 15:24

That was the flight operated by G-ARWE when the number two engine caught fire and then fell off as he turned to make an emergency landing on the crosswind runway at LHR.

Garry

Kov · Post by **Kov** » 31 Jul 2007, 15:48

blanston12 wrote:Two answers for you

In 1961 BA712 went from London, Dusseldorf, Beirut, Bahrain, Bombay, Columbo, Singapore, Jakarta, Darwin, Sydney.

In 1969 BA712 went from London, Zurich, Rome, Karachi, Calcutta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Darwin, Sydney.

Thank you very much!

Gary Russel wrote:That was the flight operated by G-ARWE when the number two engine caught fire and then fell off as he turned to make an emergency landing on the crosswind runway at LHR.

Exactly.

Regards

Jakov

Post by **Garry Russell** » 31 Jul 2007, 15:51

Somehow I doubted it was a co incidence.

On that occasion it was LHR-LHR in three and a half minuets........so much happened in that time.

BTW sorry........forgetting my manners

Welcome to the forum

Garry

Brian Franklin · Post by **Brian Franklin** » 31 Jul 2007, 17:33

I flew as a pax on that route during 1966-67 as far as Singapore and it followed the route shown as 1969.

blanston12 · Post by **blanston12** » 31 Jul 2007, 18:15

Doing some checking on British airways current timetable , today there is a flight BA 712 from LHR to Zurich, but unfortunately, it does not continue to points east.

kit · Post by **kit** » 31 Jul 2007, 21:25

Jeepers, I just looked up the piccies of the a/c on airliners.net. :shock:

The entire tail of the a/c seems to have burnt off at some stage, but there were only 5 fatalities, I'm amazed. The flight crew did a magnificent job for sure.

Post by **Garry Russell** » 31 Jul 2007, 21:34

Hi Kit

Full story here

http://www.airdisaster.com/special/spec ... c712.shtml

Garry

blanston12 · Post by **blanston12** » 31 Jul 2007, 22:13

Jeepers is right!

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0151173/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0151174/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0151175/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0151176/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0151177/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0151178/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0151179/L/

I have seen written several times on this forum that no aircraft was ever lost because of the failure of a Rolls Royce engine, well this aircraft seams to be an exception to that rule.