<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_712" id="mwASI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="BOAC Flight 712">BOAC Flight 712</a> catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Jane_Harrison" id="mwASM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Barbara Jane Harrison">Barbara Jane Harrison</a> is awarded a posthumous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cross" id="mwASQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="George Cross">George Cross</a>, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.