Word: hostessing
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From London's Northolt airport one day last week, a twin-engined British European Airways Viking winged up into the evening skies and headed for Paris. Aboard were 28 passengers and a crew of four, including the pilot, 29-year-old Captain Ian Harvey, and the hostess, pretty, auburn-haired Sue Cramsie...
Forty-five minutes later, Captain Harvey's Viking was 3,500 ft. over the English Channel, the air was smooth, the sky clear. The plane's youngest passenger, a three-month-old girl, slept in her mother's lap. Hostess Cramsie had just walked to the rear of the plane to fix a cold snack for the other passengers. Later, only one passenger had a definite idea of what happened next. Paul Wolf, holiday-bound with his wife and daughter, thought he saw a pale, blue flash through the porthole...
...first passenger to think of the hostess was William Haigh. He left his seat and pulled her free of the debris in the galley. Sue Cramsie was still conscious, but one arm was broken and badly gashed. The other passengers tried to make her comfortable on a makeshift cot of coats and pillows...
...turned nonchalantly and began talking to another girl. A girl was coming toward him,; she was pretty and Vag decided to ask her to dance. He was about to do so when she asked him sweetly and energetically if he would like to meet someone. Vag noticed the hostess card on her blouse and the tall, bony girl with a small face and muted features who was following her. No, he said, he was just going to --. But he found himself introduced to the lanky girl, and asked her to dance. The loudspeaker leaked "It's Magic." They exchanged names...
Rummaging petulantly through a pile of loot, the once-polite pair cast aside a handful of unsuitable rings and brooches. "Junk," they murmured, then left with 12 million francs' worth of jewelry. As a parting insult to their uncooperative hostess, they drove...