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Old 17th Nov 2011, 10:24
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A30yoyo
 
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Pan Am documentary

I found the last few minutes about Pan Am's downfall gripping but overall the talking heads needed more editing (puzzling concentration on cabin-crew) and the music was distracting and irritating...the story about Churchill's first Boeing 314 flight was bizarre they seemed to be claiming Pan Am flew him and the BOAC flight was bombed by the Germans?....I would have liked to have seen Pan Am's pioneering and ferrying on the 'Fireball' route mentioned (Miami-Brazil-West Africa-Arabia-India-China in WWII)
Trippe's lady assistant hit it on the head when she said it started going downhill after he retired (1968?).... ....Boeing bounced the airline industry into buying the 747 (still too big?) and Pan Am paid a big price for being the first with it. And as the programme said the Lockerbie incident could not be overcome.
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