Dear,
My name is Didier Pinçon, i'm French and Today, I have a request for you: Do you have in your archives photos about Avianca 747 HK-2910X at JFK? , I know this aircraft came many times in JFK airport beetween August 1982 to November 1983. I have a very particular and sad story with this plane, and it is the reason I’m looking for photos about her.
I will explain you why I have a special story with the Avianca 747 HK-2910X .
At the time, Saturday, November 26th, I was working at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in a luxurious restaurant whose name is “Maxim’s”. it was a very nice restaurant, where we were welcoming VIPs, first class passengers and crews when the flights were not yet arrived, delayed or very late.
This day was a Saturday. Avianca flight 010 was arriving in the afternoon like every Saturday, from Bogota, Caracas, Madrid before to go to Frankfurt, his final destination before the return flight.
The return flight from Frankfurt was normal but we did receive a phone call from the Avianca airport office. They told us the flight will be a little bit late from Frankfurt, so please prepare a meal for all the first class passengers, the economy passengers were welcome in another restaurant just near our restaurant.
So we were welcoming the first class passengers of AV 011 before their flight to Madrid, Caracas and Bogota. At this time in our beautiful restaurant, we had a usual practice: offer a porcelain ahs-tray from “Maxim’s” of Paris to the pleasant persons.
This saturday night, we meet some very nice Colombian persons and we had for a short time a nice time with them, so as they were very cool, we were offering them some Maxim’s ash-tray like a souvenir. Some minutes later, someone from the Avianca office came in our restaurant and told them the plane is arriving from Frankfurt with only about 30 minutes late so please come to the gate area to board in the 747.
I went to the boarding gate with these nice persons and I wished them to have a good flight to home. After that , the door of the 747 was closed and everybody said bye, bye. The 747 leaved the gate, then went to the runway and took off to Madrid.
The day after, Sunday morning, like every day, when I woke up before to go to my work at the airport, I listened at the radio and I heard the plane crashed some minutes before landing at Madrid-Barajas airport, so only 2 hours after we said them bye bye.
I throught: it was impossible! But when I was arriving at the airport, all was very sad and early in the morning our airport was in black.
I’m one of the last persons to have see the passengers in life, and I think about them every day since 1983..
I was very touched by this accident, and since I often have flashs in my head about these persons. I’m very sad and I still don’t know exactly what happened. They are in my heart forever. My passion for Avianca started some years early, but I think this event started a love story between Avianca and me, I know it is curious.
Today, I try to obtain all the photos I can find about this 747( no photo from web sites), and mainly photos taken on the airports that this plane was landing on, but it is very difficult.
So if you have photos about this plane or if you know some persons who could have take photos about this plane at JFK airport, do you accept to help me to obtain scans of them please?
I thank you very much. Kind regards Didier
avianca 747 HK-2910X