Has anyone ever seen important parts missing from a plane, because some pax wanted a rare souvenir?
Considering how eager some people are to collect things, this must have happened more than one time.
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GulfstreamGuy From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 626 posts, RR: 6 Reply 1, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 1062 times:
I don't believe it was an "unusual" souveiner, but I did take a "British Airways" champagne glass off of the Concorde when it visited LIT in 1996.
FlyingColours From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 2315 posts, RR: 11 Reply 2, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 1053 times:
Some crafty bugger nicked the big plaque off the front galley of Concorde during disembarkation. I wouldn't mind but how do you get this large plaque past everyone - not to mention it needs a screwdriver to get it off.
Phil
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FRASYD From Germany, joined Mar 2004, 176 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1023 times:
Might have been a crewmember as well...
Well, a lot of people take the safety cards. Not a clever souvenir in my eyes... Some guy also sells tons of first class blankets from QF on EBay. Must have fallen of a truck, I guess..
September11 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 3623 posts, RR: 23 Reply 5, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1009 times:
Ba97 From Canada, joined Apr 2004, 377 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 975 times:
Well here is where honesty pays....
I flew on Concorde on one of the special last flights. Dressed fine (tux).
Everyone was lifting everything. For reasons due to my better than average dress code, a representative of BA drove me to my car after we landed. I commented on the nerve of people to lift safety cards and other items. I noted that much of the material was not labelled "Concorde" and looked like first class wear. BA told me they were concerned on making sure enough cards were remaining with spares for the remaining legs back to London. I said if I was to lift something it would have been the headphones.
A week later a package arrived from BA. Inside a very nice note commenting on our discussion on Concorde materials. The staff remembered my discussion on headphones and wanted to send me a gift. Inside the package....were a pair of concorde headphones.
there is economy class, business class, first class...then Concorde..pure class
JHSfan From Denmark, joined Apr 2004, 469 posts, RR: 2 Reply 8, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 970 times:
GulfstreamGuy, one Hail Mary and a glass of champagne
Cool Ba97, you behaved like a real gentleman - Tux and a good taste in Concorde souvenirs You really deserved the headphones!
Acho, you could recommend the people you know, that they tries a flight on an old ex-Russian plane somewhere in Africa. Some of the interior (and more vital parts of the plane perhaps) might not be very well fixed to the fuselage (and wings)
Thanks also to the rest of you too
It seems that people take things, that can be easily removed. Not very many people use tools like a screwdriver to get more rare souvenirs from the plane.
More replies will be appreciated, thanks in advance.
Yours in realtime
JHSfan
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Tristarenvy From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2265 posts, RR: 4 Reply 10, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 955 times:
Well, I have a bunch of National (The Sun God one) Airlines barf bags. UN-used, of course!!!
And there were some DA FA's I'd like to have taken home, too!
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SlamClick From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 10062 posts, RR: 71 Reply 11, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 963 times:
When she was an f/a, my wife had a passenger get past her carrying the aircraft megaphone under his overcoat. A megaphone!
A docent at the USAF museum at Dayton said that a scoutmaster was stopped, carrying a hatch he'd removed from a display airplane. His scout troop saw him do it. Scratch "honest" from the list of scout virtues.
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