Death Cruiser Flight Crew
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Vaucluse, France.
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Yes, a good programme, well told, with no glaring inaccuracies, for once.
The navigator's fudging his astro shots to comply with where he thought he was became a classic, hammered in to new entrants at Cranebank.
I think the reason they dismissed the captain was for failing to take timely action when it became obvious they were lost.
The Hermes type did not meet its payload/range specifications and was in the process of being replaced by the Canadair Argonaut.
My wife joined BOAC as a stewardess in 1971 and remembers that Len Smee, the senior steward, was still around.