BA 1-11's
As cabin crew I operated 500's, 400's and 539's, we got the latter, well 3 of em, in BHX when they were new! Also remember a summer with an arabic 400 I think it was reg BUA40, known of course a bugger up! On night flights, remember night Malta's on a 1-11 folks?, we used to turn the galley lights off, listen for the rustle and see how many cockroaches we could kill. Poor engineers could never get rid of them, no matter what fumigation they did.
If memory serves they went back to the Gulf with the aircraft.
A right mare of an aircraft from a cabin crew point of view, but we always felt safe in them. I seem to recall a tale on another thread about Captain 'fingers' Benton who bounced one over a crossing aircraft, think it was either DUS or FRAs coming into land. Tough as Desperate Dan they were!
Happy Days!
Last edited by oldflyboy; 13th Mar 2007 at 23:11.
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