Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the original flight plan, French Pilot Gaston Grellier, 40, headed toward a non-French refueling stop, at Majorca in Spain's Balearic Islands, to avoid putting down in Algeria. In the air the first directive crackled from Algeria: "Refuel at Palma and then proceed to Algiers." Since French delicacy dictated that the Sultan should be among the first to hear that his hospitality was being violated, Pilot Grellier was also told to radio his new destination back to Rabat. Seeing the report, the Moroccan Minister of Works cried, "This is pure piracy," and ordered instructions sent...
...Capture. Over the, Mediterranean Pilot Grellier radioed Algiers for a fighter escort, then called in Stewardess Claudine Lambert, 22, told her what was going on and suggested she go back to chat with the passengers to keep them from being suspicious. "Now be a big girl," he said. "Tonight you are entering history...
...chirped: "Please fasten your seat belts and extinguish your cigarettes. We are arriving in Tunis." A moment later she called out the routine "Please do not move till the plane is completely stopped," then disappeared into the pilot's compartment. Tommy gun-toting gendarmes pried open the plane's back door, poured into the cabin while the passengers were still tied down in their safety belts. Ben Bella said: "All right, we're coming out." One by one the passengers, hands high, got down to the tarmac and were taken away. Shouted Ben Bella: "This...
When the meat runs out two days later and the coward has run away with the only hunting gun, the petty fights begin. An engaged girl (Phillis Kirk) and Anita Ekberg, clad in scant blouses, tussle over the co-pilot in a nearby brook for the picture's most interesting scene...
Suddenly, the drums stop. The coward's body (minus its head) is found. The plane must take off immediately. But who can pilot the plane out? And who will its passengers be? And who cares...