Trident Crash 1972, Movietone Moment, 18 June 2021

On this day in 1972, a Trident jetliner crashed after takeoff from Heathrow Airport in London, killing 118 people. Here is a British Movietone report covering the reassembling of the plane wreckage. Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough reassembles Papa India to try to find out the cause of the crash. Team of Inquiry come to inspect. GV interior BEA Trident fuselage pieced together in sections. CU front cockpit sections. SV 3 inquiry judges looking at a section of wreckage. LV pan showing the wreckage of the flight deck. SV pan from the mass of wires to the wreckage of the flight deck. CU droop handle in up position. SV Mr Geoffrey Lane (judge) inspecting a section of cockpit controls. SV ditto including dial for droop handle. CU dial for droop handle in up position. SV Lane looking at controls. GV sections of the leading edge. SCU Captain JW Jessop with Sir Morien Morgan testing droop handle control. Full CU droop handle. GV sections of wreckage including the floor of the flight deck. LV comple