page_title: 1968 Heathrow BKS Air Transport Airspeed Ambassador crash
hierarchical_section_title: 1968 Heathrow BKS Air Transport Airspeed Ambassador crash
caption_attribution_description: Airspeed Ambassador of BKS Air Transport
context_page_description: On 3 July 1968 Airspeed Ambassador registration G-AMAD of BKS Air Transport crashed at London Heathrow Airport, damaging two parked Trident airliners as it cartwheeled into the incomplete London Heathrow Terminal 1, then under construction. Six of the eight people on board the Ambassador were killed, along with the eight racehorses being transported on it. The crash was blamed on the failure of a flap-operating rod due to metal fatigue, resulting in asymmetrical lift.
context_section_description: On 3 July 1968 Airspeed Ambassador registration G-AMAD of BKS Air Transport crashed at London Heathrow Airport, damaging two parked Trident airliners as it cartwheeled into the incomplete London Heathrow Terminal 1, then under construction. Six of the eight people on board the Ambassador were killed, along with the eight racehorses being transported on it. The crash was blamed on the failure of a flap-operating rod due to metal fatigue, resulting in asymmetrical lift.
caption: Airspeed Ambassador G-AMAD in 1965
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