OVERSEAS NATIONAL AIRWAYS

A LAST GREETING TO LORI

Loved and missed dear friend and colleague

Loriīs son Allen Raymond wantīs to get in touch with
people who knew Lori. Please contact him on email
raymond@telusllc.com

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Browneyed LORI FRATTINI
is a native of Vermont.
She has a degree from Burdett Jr.
College in Boston, Massachusetts,
and is a graduate of the
Grace Downs Air Career School.

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PARIS NEW YORK SPECIAL

It was from Paris to NY with special
food for special people (travel agency
owners whom ONA was trying to impress)
with special leather dresses for us.
At least four rows of seats were
removed to store all the special food
- and then disaster struck.
Unbeknownst to us, everything was packed
with dry ice and frozen solid.
So much for special flights ... I wonder
to this day if ONA ever got their
business!

Goran Wrambeck, Ingrid Mjornell,
Marianne Hammarberg, Myhrberg,
Christina Werjefelt, Chris
Starkloff and Karin Arndt.

Midnight over Bien Hoa and all 
hell breaking loose on the ground, 
it was like a giant electical storm, 
lots of flashes and reflections off 
the rice patties and condition red 
and being asked if we wanted to 
divert to Cam Rhan Bay and Capt 
Bill Patterson saying he was going 
to wait it out, he flew B 25s during 
WW2. Turning around he said to the 
rest of the cockpit crew..."those 
kids are waiting to go home" 
- and we waited and we did get in.

Lauri Frattini in the back said she 
thought we were in trouble when they 
turned on the runway lights, (they 
turned everything off, hey, sometimes 
they even left the tower) they were 
at our nine o'clock position and Bill 
stood the plane on its side to get 
lined up.

Everybody lift your feet 
when I tell you!
A gag the crews returning to the 
States would do to the troops was to 
have the Senior announce that during 
takeoff she was going to come on the 
P/A and tell everybody to lift their 
feet so as to lessen the weight 
of the aircraft.

So about 50 seconds into the takeoff 
roll on would come the announcement 
and everytime 100% would lift their
feet up. They were amazed when the 
nose of the aircraft would just about 
then come up and get airborne. 

The F/A never let on it was a gag. 
The guys loved it.

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Suitor kills stewardess,
then himself

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Article courtesy Helen Lawrence

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Shetland letīs you choose the crew

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Lori # 6 on ONA 1966
seniority lists

Marilyn White Doolittle
and Lou Eversmeyer

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Fifi Labine and Maureen Hanna

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Nettie, Teddie and Fifi

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Fifi and Marilyn White

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