Nairobi incident April 1969 - anyone know?
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Nairobi incident April 1969 - anyone know?
A very long shot but here goes.
In April 1969 (day not remembered) I was a wee lad travelling Olympic Airways B707 Johannesburg to Athens overnight. We made a refuelling stop at Nairobi.
After start up, the aircraft began taxiing and almost immediately hit something and seemed to sink nose down (slightly). As I looked out my window, I saw a technician in white overalls running out from beneath the fuselage and getting caught in the jet blast. I saw him being bowled head over heels rearwards and out of sight. He must have been injured.
The plane was shut down and we spent the night on the terminal floor. Next morning we managed to hustle a seat on a TWA B707 also Athens bound.
They never told us what happened; the B707 seemed to sit nose down (damaged nose gear?) so it seemed to me to be a collision with a ground vehicle. Maybe it was the driver who I saw blown away?
Does anybody out there have any information, memories or suggestions where to look? Just to satisfy an information gap that has been with me for all these years. Thank you.
In April 1969 (day not remembered) I was a wee lad travelling Olympic Airways B707 Johannesburg to Athens overnight. We made a refuelling stop at Nairobi.
After start up, the aircraft began taxiing and almost immediately hit something and seemed to sink nose down (slightly). As I looked out my window, I saw a technician in white overalls running out from beneath the fuselage and getting caught in the jet blast. I saw him being bowled head over heels rearwards and out of sight. He must have been injured.
The plane was shut down and we spent the night on the terminal floor. Next morning we managed to hustle a seat on a TWA B707 also Athens bound.
They never told us what happened; the B707 seemed to sit nose down (damaged nose gear?) so it seemed to me to be a collision with a ground vehicle. Maybe it was the driver who I saw blown away?
Does anybody out there have any information, memories or suggestions where to look? Just to satisfy an information gap that has been with me for all these years. Thank you.
