Originally Posted by
gareth herts
Lovely stuff Rog - you'll definitely enjoy seeing some of the images when we publish this!
Look forward then to it -
FYI
Sterling was the first to use their Supers on ultra long haul IT package holiday flights all over the world - Ceylon Mombasa Thailand, even the USA.
Sadly they had 2 fatal losses on these such flights - A Super (Sterling Airways Flight 296, in 1972 ) was lost on let down to DXB at night in IFR on its way home from Colombo. The flight from Colombo to Copenhagen was scheduled to make refuelling stops in Bombay, Dubai, and Ankara. A change of crew was also scheduled during the stop in Ankara.
Another Super was lost in 1974 taking off at Tehran.
The Caravelle had been chartered by travel agency Tjæreborg Rejser to take tourists on a tour around Asia. The tour had started in CPH and had taken the tourists to several cities in India, and the Middle and Far East. The tour, was making a tech stop at Tehran, before flying back to Copenhagen. As the aircraft was taxiing to the runway, the right main landing gear suddenly collapsed, causing a fuel tank in the right wing to rupture and spill fuel which then ignited.