Story shared by reader Melissa Frost from Gold Coast, Australia  “Are the children secured Madam?” The immaculate Pan Am hostess asked. “Yes, thank you” my mother replied, smiling nervously as she leaned over to check the seat belts of my siblings one more time.    Across the aisle, I looked down to check my own seat belt. On the tarmac outside the Pakistani Pan Am ground crew were moving away from the dust bloom surrounding the aircraft, toward the safety … Continue reading Trip Report: Pan Am Eastbound – B747 Karachi to Hong Kong in 1972