הסיפור מראשיתו של שדה התעופה בלוד עוד מבית היוצר המשובח של "דובה" פרימרמן

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KLM was founded on 7 October 1919, by Albert Plesman making it the oldest carrier in the
world still operating under its original name, though the company stopped operating during the
Second World War—apart from the operations in the Dutch Antilles in the Caribbean. The first
KLM flight was on 17 May 1920, from Croydon Airport, London to Amsterdam carrying two
British journalists and a number of newspapers. It was flown by an Aircraft Transport and Travel
Airco DH.16, callsign G-EALU, piloted by Jerry Shaw. In 1920 KLM carried 440 passengers and 22
tons of freight. In 1921 KLM started scheduled services.

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G-AAGX Hannibal
The prototype, Hannibal's first flight was on 14 November 1930. The aircraft was named after
Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian military commander] On 8 August 1931, the aircraft was
operating an international scheduled passenger flight from Croydon to Paris when the port
lower engine failed. Flying debris from the failed engine struck the propeller of the port upper
engine causing it to vibrate so severely that it had to be shut down. A forced landing was made
at Five Oak Green, Kent where the aircraft suffered further damage to a wing and another
propeller and the tail was ripped off against a tree stump. There were no injuries amongst the
20 passengers and crew. The aircraft was dismantled and taken to Croydon by road for rebuild.[2]
It was lost over the Gulf of Oman in RAF service on 1 March 1940 with eight aboard including
the First World War ace Group Captain Harold Whistler and the Indian politician Sir A. T.
Pannirselvam.[An early report that wreckage of the aircraft had been located turned out to be
incorrect;[no trace of the aircraft, the air mail it carried or its occupants has ever been
discovered and the cause of its loss remains unknown.[

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