SENEGAL: NON-STOP FLIGHT FROM LOS ANGELES TO DAKAR HERALDS NEW D.C.B. SERVICE

Record ID: 494432

  • Title: SENEGAL: NON-STOP FLIGHT FROM LOS ANGELES TO DAKAR HERALDS NEW D.C.B. SERVICE
  • Date: 1st June 1970
  • Summary: 1. LV Aircraft taxiing in (2 shots) 0.10 2. SV Man opens aircraft's door from inside. 0.16 3. GV PAN aircraft on tarmac 0.21 4. CU One of the engines 0.24 5. SV PAN Mr. Fal entering aircraft 0.27 6. SV PAN Mr. Fal inspects aircraft (2 shots) 0.43 7. SV PAN Panels on flight deck 0.51 8. SV DC-8 sign 0.54 9. SV People leaving aircraft 0.58 10. GV People by aircraft 1.02 Initials CM/V/PN/OS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th June 1970 13:00
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  • Location: DAKAR, SENEGAL
  • Country: Senegal
  • Reuters ID: LVACVRC86NQEUB967VSI8RLQ94OE
  • Story Text: By the end of June 1970, the prominent African airline Air Afrique will be offering a new D.C.8 service between Europe and Senegal. On Friday (May 29) the plane which will inaugurate the new service showed what may come in the future by flying non-stop from near the world's best-known film centre, Hollywood, to the Senegalese capital, Dakar.

    The president of the Air Afrique airline, M.Cheikh Fal, inspected the interior of the new aircraft at Dakar, shortly after the completion of the 12-hours flight. He told reporters that the D.C.8 was economically the ideal aircraft to operate the African network.

    Twenty-two people made the non-stop flight from the Douglas company's airstrip at Long Beach, near Los Angeles.

    The new aircraft was to be christened "Fort Lamy" on Monday (June 1) at the Chad town of that name. Then it was due to go on to Le Bourget for three weeks, for cleaning and other operations.
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