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BA/B-CAL merger (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Sir Adam Thomson, British Caledonian, on a proposed merger of the airline with British Airways (BA), despite the referral to the Monopolies Commission. Reporter not identified.
BA long haul flights (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Lord King explaining why British Airways has postponed a decision on their choice of future long haul planes. Reporter not identified.
BA and B-Cal to merge (1987)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the announcement that British Airways and British Caledonian are to merge; interviews with Jenny Wootton(?), Kleinwort Benson; Lord (John) King, BA; shadow Transport Secretary, Robert Hughes; Sir...
BA/B Cal merger can go ahead (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
The government says the merger between airlines British Airways (BA) and British Caledonian (B Cal) can go ahead. Lord Young, David Ivor Young, explains why and how their current routes will be opened to all...
Near-miss for two jets at Gatwick (1988)
- Genre
- Speech
Two British holiday jets came close to crashing into each other at Gatwick Airport last night. A British Island Airways BAC 111 apparently landed on the wrong runway, just as the second plane was...
Possible ban on electrical items on airlines (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Nick Peters talks to Transport Secretary Paul Channon about the possibility of banning electrical items in which explosives can be easily hidden from being carried on airlines following the Lockerbie bomb...
Explosives left on British Airways plane (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Rodney Bennett reports on the discovery of explosives on a British Airways flight. Lord King, BA’s chairman, talks about the investigation into how this happened. Denis Phipps, former head of security at...
BA flight in trouble lands safely (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
A British Airways jet has made an emergency landing at Southampton Airport after a window in the cockpit smashed and the pilot Captain Timothy Lancaster spent an agonising fifteen minutes with half his...
British Airways pilot almost sucked out of plane (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Captain Timothy Lancaster, the pilot who was almost sucked out of the cockpit of his jet while 23,000 feet in the air. So far British Airways has not commented on the incident, but Air...
British Airways pilot almost sucked out of plane (1990)
- Genre
- Press conference
The Chief Executive of British Airways has today been at the hospital bedside of a pilot who was almost sucked to his death when a cockpit window blew out on a holiday jet plane at the weekend. Sir Colin...