Re: Another Airbus down ....

"Brian Reay" <see@website.invalid> wrote in message
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> "John" <John@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> > Could it be something to do with the initials of their name. I think
> > most
>> people know that the name of the Pakistani airline PIA really means
>> "Please Inform Allah"
>
> I flew on a PIA flight in (about) 1985 from Islamabad to Karachi. The
> aircraft was a tatty 747, I suspect number 001. The boarding process
> reminded me of the films you see of Indian railways in the days of Empire.
> I swear to this day that there was a goat in the economy section- you
> could hear in the business section.  I was told, by our interpreter, that
> it wasn't unknown for passengers to light a small "primus" to have a
brew.
>
> As I recall, the in-flight meal was a sort of Cornish pasty*. It wasn't as
> good as the Pakistan Army rations (also a "pasty" but much nicer) we had
> in the desert.
>
> --
> 73
> Brian G8OSN/W8OSN
> www.g8osn.org.uk
>
> *Not a somasa- definitely more pasty like.
>
I used to cadge a lift from RAF Lyneham. to RAF Dishforth when I was
at RAF Compton Basset   ( learning my Morse )

The plane was always on the same Sat morning run.
An old Valletta. it was old in 1955.
I though it was a scrapper on the runway before I was told to board it.
What seat belts ?
You could see some of the wing rivets rotating as you flew.

Last trip I had they were moving a Sergeants furniture to his new camp.
Settee Wardrobe etc that seemed so odd to see.

Great days. And I got paid to learn Morse  16 Bob a week.
80np to the younger gentlemen reading this.

de Johnny G3LIV
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Barry Moore (30.06.2009 22:48)