Keeping the lifelines open

Had the Soviets interfered with air traffic down the corridors to West Berlin, the city and its people may have found themselves cut off. Airlines had to carry on operating, and — had the worst come to the worst — would have done so with military crews MILITARY SPONSORED AIR SERVIC Viscounts of British European Airways on the Berlin Tempelhof apron during 1965. ULLSTEINBILD/TOPFOTO As BEA Viscount 802 G-AOHK rolls out on Tempelhof’s southern runway in April 1965, a Pan