Aircrew
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Aircrew are personnel who operate an aircraft while in flight. The composition of a flight's crew depends on the type of aircraft, plus the flight's duration and purpose. Air crew consist of Flight Cr
The aircrew of a Jetstar Airways Boeing 787
USAF, RAF and RAAF aircrew and maintenance personnel with their C-17s
Flight attendant
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A flight attendant is a member of the aircrew whose primary responsibility is to ensure the safety of passengers in the cabin of an aircraft across all stages of flight. Their secondary duty is to see
Aircrew
…Purser or In-flight Service Manager or Cabin Services Director, is responsible for the cabin crew as a team leader. Flight attendant is the crew member responsible for the safety of passengers. Historically during the early era of commercial aviation, the position was staffed by young…
Heinrich Kubis (back row, fourth from right; photographed in 1937) was the world's first flight attendant, serving on a Zeppelin.
Jack Sanderson (1922/23) at age 14. He was the first airplane flight attendant in the world.
Dutch flight attendants, Istanbul, 1959
Nelly Diener, the first female flight attendant in Europe, hired in May 1934. She was killed on the plane pictured behind her, in the July 1934 Swissair Tuttlingen accident.