You're spot on, infowarrior. I flew into Riyadh at that time on a USAF C-12 from the embassy in Jeddah. The burnt-out hulk of that aircraft was still on the runway. The story going around then was that a "hill Paki," one guy who was pretty unsophisticated, fired up his gas burner to brew some tea. The plane landed, but by then the fire was burning so hot that noone, crew or pax, were able to get out. That "hill Paki" was coming from Waziristan to make his Hajj.
Fortunately, they're not ALL hill Pakis. Some two years after that, a Pakistani doctor performed a triple bypass on my 40-year old bod at Washington Hospital Center.
Then we may have crossed paths, Ax. I was a flight engineer with the US Army Engineer Division: Middle East at that time, and as I said, was working out of Riyadh International...
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