Aircraft Photo of G-AGWH | Avro 691 Lancastrian C3 | British South American Airways - BSAA | AirHistory.net #778127
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:G-AGWH
Aircraft Original Type:Avro 683 Lancaster
Aircraft Generic Type:Avro 683/691 Lancaster/Lancastrian
Aircraft Version:Avro 691 Lancastrian C3
C/n (msn):1280
Operator Titles:British South American Airways - BSAA
Aircraft Name:Star Dust
Location
City / Airport:Manchester - Woodford (closed)Map
Region / Country:England, United Kingdom
Airport Codes:ICAO: EGCD   IATA: -   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:16 January 1946 to 31 July 1947
Photo from:Gordon Riley Collection
Photo ID: 778127
Photo Comment

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.

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