Comet: A Great British Air Disaster

Genre:Documentary

Released:2013-02-24

Runtime:47

Overview

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.