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MAY DAYS Poems 'Just Plane Dangerous' MAY 2

MAY 2 -Just Plane Dangerous

The world’s first commercial Jet Airliner a De Havilland Comet with 36 passengers paying up to £315 for a return ticket took off from London for Johannesburg on this day on 1952. The plane cut up to a third of the time from traditional aircraft flight times. However, these planes began showing serious issues during their initial years of commercial operation. Several aircraft crashed in a short time. The Comet became a catastrophic craft with 7 of the fleet of 21 crashing. 







Just Plane Dangerous

The De Havilland Comet

Lifted off from London airport

Its four jet engines roaring

On a Saturday morning in 1952

Before soaring off to Johannesburg

The first commercial jet airline flight

Smoking included.

Those 36 passengers arrived 

With a safe landing

-Unlike seven other De Havilland Comets

Which unexpectedly crashed

Within the next two years

De Havilland disasters.


So, despite having the word land in the name

De Havacrash might have been more accurate

No frequent flyer points back then

But I doubt they would have been keenly sought

Anyway…

 Alan j  Wright

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