Originally Posted by
willy wombat
Donaldson also did some winter sun charters from GLA to Tunisia etc and also used their 707s as freighters in the winter (I think they had to bulk load through the passenger doors). Does anyone here know how the likes of Donaldson, Lloyd etc financed these 707s? It seems unlikely that they had the cash to buy them outright so did they lease them from PanAm or a financial intermediary?
Other than “spread legs” and her sister 321, Dan Air’s 320Cs don’t get much of a mention in this thread. Dan Air used them in the summer for I.T., ABC etc and in the winter leased them to IAS Cargo Airlines as freighters which worked well for both carriers. Sadly one of the aircraft was lost while operating for IAS when landing at Lusaka (or was it Ndola?) due to structural failure.
The Dan Air Boeing 707 crash happened as the aircraft was on approach to Lusaka Airport, Zambia. The incident occurred on the 14 May 1977.
Boeing 707-321C G-BEBP owned by Dan Air and ooperated by IAS which had been subcontracted by Zambia Airways to operate a weekly scheduled cargo service between Lusaka and London Heathrow via Athens and Nairobi.