AIRPORTS TEAM UP TO REMEMBER WARTIME FLIGHT
Lisbon plaque will commemorate actor’s final journeyBristol International has teamed up with Lisbon Airport to help commemorate a flight which crashed during the Second World War, killing 17 people including the actor Leslie Howard. BOAC flight 777 was en route from Portugal to Whitchurch Airport (the original site of Bristol Airport) when it was attacked by German fighters over the Bay of Biscay. It is alleged that the plane, a Douglas DC-3, was attacked because the Germans believed that Winston Churchill was on board, although official papers on the incident are not expected to be