as teh first production jetliner the de havilled comet suffered MANY problems that would make the second jetliner to enter service the tupelov tu 104 the first SUCSESSFUL jetliner the comet enterd service with BOAC (british overseas airways corperation) witch has now merged with anotehr airline to become british airways the comet sufferd explosive decompression causing many accidents it was retierd in 1997 and produced 114 comets in total the hawker sidney nimrod a varient of teh comet woudl serve until 2011