Baker spoke at a variety of events in India extending her stay twice to speak at schools - her last public talk was in Karachi in early 1954 . In January 1954 it was announced Baker had died in a plane crash near the island of Elba en route to Rome from Pakistan where she had toured after helping an international conference in India . The plane , BOAC Flight 781 , had taken off at 4:30 a.m. , Lima time , Sunday , on its way to London , and crashed in the sea about 40 minutes later . She had had plans to continue her trip from Rome to Paris , New York , and from there to a pioneering post with her husband Frank Baker in St. Charles , Grenada , West Indies
BOAC Flight 781
BOAC Flight 781
Dorothy Beecher Baker