B.O.A.C. Comet 1  Jetliner Service
​London to Tokyo April 1953

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Remarks
1. Seen by me
2. Not recorded, but may exist
3. Recorded by Vijay Seth in his Indian Airmails (1947-2003), not seen by me
4. Internal stage. BOAC was not ordinarily permitted to fly mail on this stage
5. Private design cover
6. Recorded in Swiss Airmail Handbook 2000 (Schweizerisches Luftpost-Handbuch)

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A 1954 B.O.A.C. route map for the Britain to Japan via Pakistan and India route (Route map No. 9) 
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AP Wirephoto datelined New York, April 9, 1954. Missing Comet Airlines-This British Comet Jetliner, shown here after an emergency landing near Bombay, India, last July, was identified as the B.O.A.C. Comet which disappeared last night on a flight to Cairo from Rome. The missing jetliner, operated by South African Airways for British Overseas Airways Corp., carried 14 passengers and a crew of seven South Africans. (AP wirephoto by radio from London. 
By the picture it looks like it landed at the Juhu airstrip and not Santa Cruz International Airport in Bombay.