The 1954 Prestwick Air Disaster

Another article has been added to our ‘Stories‘ section and it’s about the 1954 Prestwick air disaster.

In the early morning of 25 December 1954 the RMS Cathay, a British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, crashed upon landing at Prestwick Airport killing 28 people.

The aircraft had been on a flight from Heathrow Airport to New York with scheduled stop-overs at Manchester and Prestwick airports.  Due to bad weather the Manchester stop was cancelled. 

The scheduled flight left Heathrow at 11.43pm but a little over an hour later it returned to London with a mechanical problem and the 25 passengers, 11 crew members and cargo were transferred to the ‘Cathay’ which left London at 1.05am bound for Prestwick, where 21 of its passengers would disembark.

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