1970 Dan-Air de Havilland Comet crash

The 1970 Dan-Air de Havilland Comet airplane crash was a fatal accident involving a de Havilland DH 106 Comet series 4 jet aircraft operated by Dan Air Services Limited on a non-scheduled international passenger service from Manchester to Barcelona. British tour operator Clarksons Holidays had contracted the aircraft to carry a group of holidaymakers who had booked an all-inclusive package holiday with it. The crash, which occurred on the 3 July 1970 on the wooded slopes of the Sierra del Montseny near Arbucias (Gerona) in Catalonia in northern Spain, resulted in the aircraft's destruction and the deaths of all 112 on board. This was the airline's first fatal accident killing fare-paying passengers. News of the first major accident in the company's 17th year of existence came just two days after British tour operator Global Holidays had awarded it a four-year, £2.5 million contract for all Global charter flights from Birmingham, starting in April 1971.^[2][3]

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