Summer '75 74-136 passed through Tehran , several times a week en-rte Oz . We were laid off at the time time and working 'security' in Tehran.
In dispatch office we had a sweepstake on eng failure on dep . The person with divert ticket had hand on the 'fone ...... big sheet flame lights up the night .....
'' Bahrain , Tehran , the 011 is on the way . Another engine change ''. It was the time of ovalising fan cases on JT-9s.
Handled Qantas 74-100s. V hot start , engineer called catering ....'' Many bags of ice please '' .
Cowlings opened , every orifice stuffed with ice bags , cowls close . Eng start ...... taxied away leaving a trail of melt water , and smell of melting plastic .
rgds condor .