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...planes opened machine-gun and cannon fire. The DC-4's captain Philip Blown tried evasive action, hurling the DC-4 into a steep dive. But the airliner kept taking hits. Syd's Pirates: A Story of an Airline (Durnmount, 1983), by retired Cathay senior captain Charles "Chic" Eather, documents the attack. Eather, now 81 and living on Australia's Gold Coast, recalls that despite Blown's outstanding airmanship, there was no way to evade the Chinese attackers...
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