Word: lufthansa
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...passenger in seat R-25-1 would appear to be a belly dancer practicing her routine in seat-belt situ. Almost since takeoff from Cologne on Lufthansa's flight 408 to New York, she has been rotating her midsection, rolling her eyes shimmying her shoulders and flexing her thighs. And she is not the only one-just about everyone aboard is doing this "sitdown rumba." Is this a traveling company of A Chorus Line? In-flight ecdysiast transcendentalists...
Despite the hazards that Lufthansa faces daily, it has a safety record comparable to that of U.S. carriers, judged over the years. So do Finnair, Air France and SAS. Americans should also feel safe flying north of the border. Air Canada is considered one of the most professional airlines in business...
...actuarial records for new aircraft, Lloyd's of London had expected the Boeing 747 to have at least two fatal accidents during its first two years. But only one commercial crash has occurred since the jet was introduced in 1970?in Nairobi in 1974?and that was because the Lufthansa pilot did not extend the proper wing flaps while taking off. The 747 was blameless, of course, for the catastrophe at Tenerife. Leaving aside Nairobi and Tenerife, a total of 297 of these jets, operated by 44 carriers, have flown 360 billion passenger-miles without fatalities...
Flying at 29,000 ft. near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, last week, Lufthansa Pilot Josef Kröse chanced to glance above him. There he saw a scene that caused him to stare in disbelief. Four thousand feet overhead, at the same altitude, two other jetliners were closing fast from opposite directions. As Kröse looked on in horror, the planes smashed head-on into each other. They immediately fell from the sky in battered pieces of wreckage that landed twelve miles apart; at least one woman, working on her farm, was killed by the debris. After reassembling corpses, which were...
...German jails, including Gang Leaders Ulrike Meinhof, 40, and Andreas Baader, 31, who are scheduled to stand trial May 21 in Stuttgart on charges of murder and grand larceny. The raiders directed that the 26 prisoners be taken to Frankfurt airport, given $20,000 apiece, and flown in a Lufthansa 707 jetliner to an unspecified foreign country. Otherwise, they added, they would shoot one hostage every hour and finally would blow up the embassy with...