Tag: aviation

Olympic Airways Flight 411. The following story, although it spans 44 years, is one of those that stand the test of time because, while absolutely true, it still reads like a Hollywood movie script. It was a hot afternoon, with the thermometer reading 43 degrees Celsius, when a Greek pilot achieved something impossible. To hold in the air a large and heavy plane with a burnt engine and not just to keep it "upright" without opening... nostril, but also to land it safely. And so, instead of Greece experiencing the ...