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Comet: A Great British Air Disaster

  • February 2013
  • 47mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Anna Thomson,

    Greg Lanning,

    Julian Ware,

    Starring

    Tristan Gemmill,

    The De Havilland Comet was the world's first passenger jet airliner. But less than two years into service, two aircraft blew up in mid-air, killing all aboard. PM Winston Churchill ordered an assemblage of experts to discover what went wrong - in the process, inventing many of the air crash investigation techniques still used today.