Ditched in Danish waters with a fire on board on 15 August 1939. Five people drowned, only the co-pilot survived. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Ex PH-ASL of KLM, G-AFYU only served with British Airways for a few months, ditching on a flight between Alexandria in Egypt and Malta on 21 December 1939. Three passengers and two crew were killed, three pax and three crew were rescued by a ship. Photo from: Nasjonalbiblioteket (Norway)

Ex Spain AF T2B-272, painted as British Airways G-AFAP.

Falsely painted as British Airways G-AFAP, but is in fact ex Spanish AF T.2B-272. The real G-AFAP was Ju 52 c/n 5881.

A BA Super Electra framed with LOT's sole Junkers Ju 52, SP-AKX, which had Bristol Pegasus engines. Photo from: Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe

KLM sold four F.XIIs to Crilly Airways for its new London - Lisbon route, but they were soon being used by the British Airways company on its Paris service and then sold to the Spanish Nationalists in a shady deal. Two crashed on the way to Spain, G-ADZI at Biarritz on 15 August 1936 and G-ADZK one day later at La Rochelle. Photo from: Dan Shumaker collection

Falsely painted as British Airways G-AFAP, but is in fact ex Spanish AF T.2B-272. The real G-AFAP was Ju 52 c/n 5881.

A news photo, an aviation photo and a superb photo of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (left from centre, holding his hat) returning from talks with Adolf Hitler in Bad Godesberg, near Bonn. Chamberlain's declaration of 'peace for our time' after flying home in the same BA Super Electra from the summit in Munich happened six days later on 30 September 1938. Photo from: Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe