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The airline operated mostly Avro aircraft: Yorks, Lancastrians and Tudors , and flew to Bermuda, the West Indies and the western coast of South America.
BSAA was planning to introduce de Havilland Comet jet airliners, but in 1949 it was merged back into BOAC.
During its short existence BSAA seems to have suffered more than its fair share of mysterious accidents. The loss without trace of the Tudors Star Tiger and Star Ariel are often quoted to validate the existence of a mystery zone in the Bermuda Triangle, and the loss of the Lancastrian Stardust in the Andes after sending a partly unreadable radio message has been named the Stendec incident. The discovery in 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri of the wreckage of Stardust appears to indicate a perfectly mundane accident, and there can be no serious doubt that the Tudors were also lost to the natural hazards of aviation of the times.
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