Quote from
slast:
'...the basic issue is that these were off-duty airline crew who were killed while away from home because they were working. They were not, as the header for Freight Dogs says, using "the unglamorous parts of airports that many of us never get to see" - they were in a hotel that might equally well have been used by passenger flight pilots and cabin crew.'
True, and - as the news item to which
tubby linton has provided the link reports - the primary target of the terrorists was (predictably) an Air France crew slipping in the same hotel between passenger flights.
Years ago on the B707-320C, we sometimes operated a freight flight into Lagos, and then a passenger flight out, or vice-versa. All crews stayed in the same sumptuous hotel in Ikeja...
