As it soared close to Japan’s Mount Fuji on a cloudless day in March 1966, a BOAC 707 jet was suddenly battered by tremendous gusts of wind that broke it apart. All 124 persons aboard were killed.

Since he took over as head of Brit ain’s ailing BOAC in early 1964, Sir Giles Guthrie, 51, has worked a minor miracle. Unfazed by the state-owned airline’s $224 million accumulated def icit, brought ...

A BOAC Boeing 707 jet enroute to Tel Aviv and Australia with an undisclosed number of Israelis among its 131 passengers, crashed in flames at London Airport today. An airline spokesman said there were ...