September 1, 2000

Guess The Airline - September 2000

This was probably one of the toughest games yet. Absolutely nobody guessed the airline. The answers were very diverse, and even included airlines which never flew a 747 in their entire existence! So, I suppose you must be at least a tad anxious to see the answer! (Please note: the text was retyped since the poor original scan made it unintelligible).

Tailspin (Movie review)

Movies based on true stories are always tricky. Sometimes, the true story is used simply as a base, other times the entire movie corresponds to reality, but always, there are some slight modifications due to dramatic purposes. Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy, also known as Coded Hostile, is one of the gems in the field of true air disaster movies, because it is not exactly a movie, it is a docudrama made for cable television. As you will see here, it delivers with high accuracy, the events leading to the shootdown of Korean Airlines flight 007, flying from New York to Seoul via Anchorage.