MEA Vickers Viscount

Middle East Airlines Vickers Viscount 745D OD-ACX at Beirut in August 1963. Flight ME 310 to Jerusalem (Atarot Airport). World036

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Beirut

August 8th 1963
Beiruit was the eighth stop on the 1963 Around-The-World trip. The Pan American flight from New Delhi arrived at 6:15 in the morning. Our hotel in Beirut was the Hotel Phoenicia InterContinental. In 1963 Beirut was a very modern and cosmopolitan city, with a decidedly French air. (French was the commonly understood language, rather than English.) Followers of Christianity and Islam mingled free ... read more

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