On 26 May 1952, a BOAC airliner crash-landed in the Sahara, 1,300 miles off-course. Fifty years after the crash, 'Meet the Ancestors' returned to the site of the accident with a UK expedition, in an attempt to locate the remains of the wreckage. Chart the story of the doomed arliner and last year's rescue mission.
Desert Rescue: An Expedition to the Sahara
By John Hayes Fisher
Last updated 2011-02-17
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