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Flight attendants on board a flight collectively form a cabin crew, as distinguished from pilots and engineers in the cockpit. The German Heinrich Kubis was the world's first flight attendant, in 1912 aboard a Zeppelin . [ 3 ]
Purser or In-flight Service Manager or Cabin Services Director, is responsible for the cabin crew as a team leader. Flight attendant or Cabin Crew, is the crew member responsible for the safety of passengers. Historically during the early era of commercial aviation, the position was staffed by young 'cabin boys' who assisted passengers. [15]
Although two cabin crew are legally required aboard a Convair CV-580, an exemption had been granted to Allegheny Airlines and several other carriers, permitting them to fly with one cabin crew. The Board stated they believed "the possibility for a greater number of survivors would have existed had a second cabin attendant been aboard this flight."
December 3, 1972: Spantax Flight 275, a Convair 990 (EC-BZR), crashed at Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife while taking off in almost-zero visibility, killing all seven crew and 148 passengers. [ 24 ] March 5, 1973: Spantax Flight 400 , a Convair 990 on a flight from Madrid to London, was involved in a mid-air collision with Iberia Flight 504, a ...
A malfunctioning compass gave the crew an incorrect heading, although the instrument landing system and Global Positioning System indicated they were off course. The first officer made several attempts to indicate the problem to the captain but a failure to follow airline procedures and a lack of a standardized communication protocol to ...
The flight crew included Captain Allen J. Lauber (36), who was hired in 1955 and was certified in the DC-3, CV240/340/440 as well as M 2-0-2. At the time of the accident, Lauber had logged over 10,000 hours total time. First Officer James P. McClure (33) was hired by the airline in 1961, had 5,061 hours total time and 1,410 hrs in the CV-440.
There were no injuries to the 150 passengers and crew, and the aircraft sustained no damage. [125] 27 December 2016: Jet Airways Flight 2374, a Boeing 737-800 (registered VT-JBG)—flying from Goa to Mumbai with 154 passengers and 7 crew—backtracked runway 26, lined up on the runway, and began accelerating the engines for takeoff. However ...
Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z was a flight from Singapore to Hong Kong operated by Cathay Pacific using a Convair CV-880 aircraft that crashed in Pleiku, then in South Vietnam on the afternoon of 15 June 1972, killing all 81 passengers and crew on board. It remains the deadliest aviation incident involving a Convair CV-880.