Sabena Flight 571 of the Air Force's long-range operations. Captain Levy, a Royal Air Force veteran who took part in strategic bombing missions over Germany during World War II and also in the Berlin airlift, had joined Sabena in 1952. He retired in 1982 and died of a heart attack, at a hospital near his home in Dover on 1 August 2010. The hijacking took place on his 50th birthday. Sabena Flight 571 Sabena Flight 571 was a scheduled passenger flight from Brussels to Lod via Vienna operated by the Belgian national airline, Sabena. On 8 May 1972 a Boeing 707 passenger aircraft
Airline (brand) Musical Instrument Company, and Harmony Company. Valco was notable for its flagship National and budget Supro guitar brands, which were in production until the company's demise in 1968. Valco Airline guitars have been played by a wide array of bands and artists including: J. B. Hutto, David Bowie, The Cure, PJ Harvey, Calexico and Jack White. Airline-branded amplifiers were also marketed. These were manufactured by Valco and Danelectro. The early 1960s JB Hutto Montgomery Airline model was reissued by Eastwood Guitars in the early 2000s under the name of the Airline DLX, after the company purchased the rights to the