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The name might not be familiar today, but the Hawker Siddeley Trident claimed a number of "firsts" in the world of jet travel. What was so special about it?
On the 2nd of October 1971, a British European Airways flight from London to Salzburg, Austria abruptly plunged from the sky while en route over Belgium, as the pilot broadcast his chilling final…