SR288 RIO ?
Blind, hi, you got me interested in this RIO flight with Swissair DC-10 as I remember well these 3-4 times weekly service out of GVA around 24h00. Was the last flight to depart together with another swissair flight (Nairobi SR144 if I remember well) before airport would close. They would almost always depart from 05 to take advantage of runway slope (so did GVA dispatch explain me) That would mean they would pass overhead family house within 30'' of flight and I vividly remember all the windows shaking under the thunder of the screaming CF-6 (?) amd we always got the impression they would not climb at all and crash within the next nm or so. Well my question to you would be, what was special from ops point of view to make it marginal ? Was it the sector lenght and fuel state ? Care to elaborate a bit ? Marvelous thread BTW, you BOAC people probably had the "dream" life in commercial aviation during the "golden era" (i.e. good pay and good working conditions, interesting network etc.)