Showing posts with label 1965/12. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1965/12. Show all posts

24 December 2011

29th December 1965

LY 241 over BEL/Belfast 1551 F350 57n 10w 1618 ETA KJFK/New York 2230 endurance 08+55 SelCal AJFG

El Al B.707-458, 4X-ATA 'Shehecheyanu'. This aircraft was hijacked to Algiers on 23/07/1968 and later released on 31/08/1968.

23 December 2011

28th December 1965

CU 827 (FIR) 15w 1042 F270 ETA Shannon 1124 temp' -33C wind 270/80 TAS 295 kts

Cubana An-12BP, CU-T827 en-route from Havana to Prague, via Gander and Shannon. The Havana to Shannon sector took some 17 hours.
[Photo: © Malcolm Nason, taken on it's second visit to Shannon on 04/07/1966]

Regrettably on 09/02/1967 this machine crashed on a cargo flight from Havana to Mexico City during its approach. All of the 6 passengers and 4 crew members on board were killed and the aircraft was written off.

22nd December 1965

RFR MO.IK departed Gibraltar 45n 08w 1537 F110 IMC requested climb to F150 49.16n 05.50w 1651 destination Venice experiencing heavy icing and have negative contact with Paris

Royal Air Force Transport Command Argosy.
Full call-sign not copied, could be either MOFIK or MOKIK

20th December 1965

Transglobe LE departed London/Gatwick 1025 routed over Shannon to 53n 15w 1229 F180 53n 20w 1309 ETA CYQX/Gander 1730

Transglobe Airways Britannia 314, G-ATLE
Originally operated with Canadian Pacific Airlines as CF-CZC but returned to the UK on 17/06/1965 for Air Links but their name had changed to Transglobe by the time it was re-registered as G-ATLE. The UK C of A was issued on 12/12/1965 and entered service the following day (just seven days before this log entry). It ended its days stripped for spares at Gatwick in 1970 and transferred to the BAA at that airport for fire training, as in this 1977 shot:-
[Photo: © Malcolm Nason]

19th December 1965

RDAF 688 59.36n 00.40e 1414 F095 59.17n 03.00e 1441

Royal Danish Air Force C-47, K-688