I will always remember my first internal flight, mid 1970's. This was the first plane I had been in that had not originated from the UK, or a charter holiday flight. Whilst on hols in sunny Tenerife my Father decided it would be a great idea to take a day trip to Las Palmas (as it was called then) by aeroplane. Expecting to board a small DC-9 or such like, imagine my amazement when we boarded an Aviaco DC-8 EC-ARC named Goya. This is forever inprinted on my memory as we took off and got to the top of our climb, the thing hit an airpocket and dropped like a stone a few thousand feet, bearing in mind we only got to flight level 120 on a 20 minute island hop this was pretty drastic. I always remember the plane was falling to bits inside with broken seats etc, needless to say they scrapped her about 6 months later, (the joys of being a teenage spotter).
