Comet: A Great British Air Disaster
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47mins
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.