Author: Robin Chater

I remember the 7th of August 1998 very well because that was the day I resolved to stop travelling by plane. The attacks on two US embassies in East Africa brought to the fore an organisation called al-Qaeda and I knew instinctively that their next target must logically be an aircraft. The golden age of the 1990s was over and the World’s post-war regained innocence was destroyed. I never flew again until 2003, by which time the post 9/11 security blitz and hysteria had made the entire World so bleak and distrustful. The cold war had ended, but a far…

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