Kestrel,
Regarding call signs, please tell me more about
the use of Speedbird xxx or Shuttle xxx. I
presume such use is unique to BA. When did use of
Speedbird xxx begin?
Coincidentally, I am reading 'All Four Engines
Have Failed': The True and Triumphant Story of
Flight BA 009 and the 'Jakarta Incident', by
Betty Tootell, 1985, Andre Deutsch (London),
0-233-97758-9.
The above account relates the event when
BA 009, a Boeing 747, unknowingly flew through
volcanic ash in June, 1982, near Indonesia. The
Speedbird call sign was in use then.