2 August 1947: At 1:46 p.m., G-AGWH, operating British South American Airways Flight CS59, departed Buenos Aires, Argentina enroute Santiago, Chile. At 5:41 p.m., Santiago airport received a routine Morse code signal indicating the flight would arrive in four minutes. It never arrived. Its fate remained a mystery until 1998, when two mountain climbers on Mount Tupungato, one of the highest mountains in South America, 50 miles east of Santiago, found a wrecked Rolls-Royce Merlin engine in the melting ice of a glacier at 15,000 ft.

Taken over by BOAC. Never used by that airline and scrapped at Stansted in July 1959. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

G-AHFH transited New Zealand on its way to Australia. It was being flown by AVM Don Bennett, who owned BSAA and who was returning to his home town in Queensland. Bennett was the leader of the RAF's World War II Pathfinder Force. G-AHFH passed through several UK owners before it was sold in Lebanon as OD-ADA in June 1957. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

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BSAAC's executive transport "Star Mentor" which crashed near Luton four weeks after this photo and was written off.

BSAA's "Star Olivia" was completed in late 1947 and was exhibited at the April 1949 Woodford Air Show before storage. Sold to Aviation Traders Ltd and converted to Super Trader 4B for Air Charter Ltd. Scrapped at Southend in 1959.