Hello ONA,
ONA has a special place in my heart!
I flew with ONA from 1973-78. Flying out of New York, 
I remember well all the great ONA experiences. Paris, 
Amsterdam, London, Rome, Athens! Then the Hadj flights 
for 5 years and so on. Thanks to you Cecilia Overthrow 
for having hired me, thanks to Marliese Berger for all 
your kindness and help throughout my ONA years and 
thanks to all ONA people for my great experiences.
 
My life changed forever the day I got hired with ONA 
in LA in 1973. 

I am presently flying with United Airlines. My first 
flight attendant experiences with ONA and the 6 years 
following are an extraordinary memory in my life. 
My F/A number was 19667 and my training flight was in 
May 1973, to Paris with a 3 day lay-over, wow, I 
thought I had gone to heaven!
 
JFK BIRD STRIKE 1975 for Tony Destro fact research 
documentation

I was on board that flight; the DC-10 on November 1975. 
I was sitting at door 3/R right behind the O/W exit, 
alone in the row. My handbag laying next to me, with 
everything in it but the kitchen sink, it was packed 
for possibly 2 months, going to fly our yearly Hadj 
flights to Saudi Arabia.. Oh god I remember ! We were 
on the runway, almost ready to lift off…. then that 
loud "BANG"!!! Right after that, there were scary big 
flames pounding against my window. The plane kept 
rolling for an eternity it seemed, then turning sharply 
and then stopping. I pulled open my seatbelt and jumped 
up. Not thinking of my bag I ran across to the left exit 
that was open. All that was to see was thick and black 
smoke coming my way. The door at 4/L was open, where I 
ran to and exited. I remember arriving at the bottom of 
the slide, loosing one of my shoes and then stumbling 
over big, hurtful and pointed rocks and I ran and ran 
away from the plane along the runway. At some point I 
looked back with pain in my heart not knowing where all 
my flying partners and passengers were that were on board. 

I ran to the group of people that were standing together 
way out on the runway. Shortly after, a bus arrived, 
which drove us to the Holiday-Inn, where we all 
frantically looked for each other. With great relieve 
we found each other and we all were ok. Thanks for the 
great job of our Captain, we all survived.
 
After all the past years, Burga found me. 
She emailed and called me one day out of the blue and 
told me about the ONA website, where I am finding news 
about the ONA people that stay in touch. 

Thank you Burga.

To all at ONA, I wish you happiness,  
Heidi Moser at email callheidi@aol.com

(Heidi sent a bunch of wonderful photos on pdf files - 
please dear Heidi load down the photos one by one on .jpg 
format to be publshed on the web! Thanks for great 
contributions and all good things your way! 
Hope you find lots of lost crew colleagues!)

SHERATON PRINCESS KAIULANI
HOTEL, WAIKIKI BEACH, HONOLULU