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> A have a friend who was a flight attendant working the Teheran evacuation in 1979. They packed the 747 full. People were sitting on the floor in all the aisle
by taejo 9y ago
> A have a friend who was a flight attendant working the Teheran evacuation in 1979. They packed the 747 full. People were sitting on the floor in all the aisles.
During Operation Solomon, an El Al 747 carried 1,122 Ethiopian Jews from Ethiopia to Israel.
- dredmorbius 9y agoTIL. And yes, characteristics associated with Ethiopians apply: Operation Solomon airlifted almost twice as many Ethiopian Jews to Israel as Operation Moses. The operation set a world record for single-flight passenger load on May 24, 1991, when an El Al 747 carried 1,122 passengers to Israel (1,087 passengers were registered, but dozens of children hid in their mothers' robes). "Planners expected to fill the aircraft with 760 passengers. Because the passengers were so light, many more were squeezed in." Five babies were born aboard the planes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Solomon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Solomon