THE SIGHT & THE SOUND 8/14 : Czech Airlines CSA TU-134A OK-HFL documentary from Sofia to Prague

Описание: This inflight documentation is almost two decades old and features a flight onboard Czech Airlines (CSA) TU-134A from Sofia to Prague. This flight took place one day after the sensational flight rotation on Balkan IL-18 to Newfoundland. My return journey back from Sofia to Seoul, South Korea took me via Prague (CSA TU-134A), Budapest (Malev B 737-500), Copenhagen (Malev TU-134A), Bangkok (Thai DC-10), Ho Chi Minh (Thai A-300-600), Haiphong (Vietnam Airlines TU-134A), from Hanoi (Vietnam Airlines A-320) via Ho Chi Minh to Osaka - KIX (JAL, DC-10). From there to Tokyo-Haneda (JAL 777-200) and finally to Seoul from Tokyo-Narita on Asiana B 747-400. All of this happened in March, 1997, the busiest month of flying in my lifetime.
This flight was taped with the very first generation of video cameras with digital recording on mini DV cassettes. There were neither stabilizing nor focussing features available at that time.
I therefore apologize for the poor video quality and hope that you still can capture the feeling of what it was like to fly in the 90s.

Flight details

Flight : OK 853
Date : March 18, 1997
Aircraft : TU-134A
Registration : OK-HFL
Later registrations : LZ-TUJ (Hemus Air and Albanian Airlines)
Built : 1977
From : Sofia (SOF)
To : Prague (PRG)
Take off : 15.29 h (1329 UTC)
Touch down : 16.17 h (1517 UTC)
Flying time : 1 hour 48 minutes
Flying distance : 1.161 km
Altitude : 9.450 m
Speed : 640 km/h
Captain : Cibulka, Ivan
Cabin Purser : Nemec, Karel