She reached out, but as she did, she heard shots. Wollett saw a family of five - parents and three children, including an infant - running toward them. “Jan saw one of the other stewardesses on the stairs reaching over the railing, pulling people up, and she moved to help.” “Screaming people clawed at others as they ran next to the plane, pushing them aside,” Cooke writes. So as the plane taxied slowly down the runway, the door was opened and stairs were lowered so people below could try to jump on board. Standing by the cockpit door, Wollett saw a man shoot at the plane from below. During the Vietnam War’s shambolic end, the plane was on a mission to rescue those who sought escape.Īs it touched down, stewardess Jan Wollett watched “thousands of people running toward the plane, motorcycles and bicycles, trucks and Jeeps and personnel carriers rushing faster yet,” according to the new book, “ Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am,” by Julia Cooke (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 2). The plane was ordered toward a hangar, but the airlines’ CEO, Ed Daly, instructed the pilot to experience “radio failure” and ignore the order.

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