Turkish Airlines pilots abducted at gunpoint in Beirut

[MikeD]

I always pictured the BA crews of the glory days as two stereotypical Poms holding their pinkies out while drinking wine on the overnight and one "Hard Man" yobbo slurring Cockney, double-fisting lager, and keeping the locals away from the wallets of the Downton Abbey boys.

FEs/crewmen do cool things like this:

January 1968, near LS85, Laos. UH-1D air-to-air-kill on 2 x VPAF An-2 Colts, bombing US positions in Laos. Of 4 x Colts that attacked the US radar sites, two were shot down by the FE/crewman.

 

[Boris Badenov]

Yeah, but in a stiff breeze, the AN-2 can hover longer.

 

[MikeD]

Yeah, but in a stiff breeze, the AN-2 can hover longer.

I so wish I could find the old grainy pic of that exact UH-1D parked on it's ramp some weeks after the episode, with two North Vietnamese flag "kill" markings on the sliding cargo door, annotated with date/acft type/weapon used; just like on fighters. Ive seen it, but can't for the life of me find it.

 

[derg]

Hat? Maybe that's why UPS pilots don't get jacked. The commoners don't wear hats...

Yeup. They're really strict to the point where it's better to just wear it.

 

[HJB]

Hostage exchange program. Sssshhhhiiitttt for a suni kind of thing, that happen to be in Syria.