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William, you have a brilliant memory. It was in 1970 actually but I can certainly forgive you one year remembering someone else's travels. None of the 19 hour in the air killer non stop flights flights in those days. I have no hope of remembering the flight number but William is correct it was a BOAC VC10 and we stopped in Frankfurt, Istanbul, Calcutta, Hong Kong and the the last leg to Tokyo. You had to be a real man to fly long haul in those days! I am virtually certain we did not leave London on a Sunday so it must have been BA796. What made it worse was that a small group of Trident Tanker men had stayed at the MN Hotel in Lancaster Gate and had a few beverages the night before and we were not in the best condition for what I recall being an early start. Would love to do it all over again.
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