Vaalele a Isaraelu El Al faʻatulagaina se faʻailoga talafeagai e faʻailogaina ai le iʻuga o lona faʻaaogaina o le vaalele tele a le Boeing 747 ua faʻaigoaina o le 'masiofo o le lagi' e tagata faʻamalosi vaʻalele, faʻatasi ai ma pailate o loʻo sailia se vaʻalele tele i le lagi.
O le faʻataʻitaʻiga auiliili-auiliiliina mamanu na maua mai aʻo le vaʻalele na malaga mai Roma i Tel Aviv i lana vaʻa mulimuli mo El Al.
O le vaalele, lea ua litaea e kamupani vaʻalele i le lalolagi atoa, o loʻo taofia se nofoaga faʻapitoa i le talafaʻasolopito o El Al. O le kamupani vaʻalele na faʻaaogaina vaʻalele o se vaega taua o le Operation Solomon - o se osofaʻiga faʻamalosi a le militeli lea na siʻitia ai le 14,500 Aitiope tagata Iutaia mai Addis Ababa ma aumaia i latou ia Isaraelu ia Me 1990. Tolusefulu-lima vaʻalele na faia le faigamalaga i totonu o le 36-itula vaitaimi.
O se tasi o vaalele a El Al, na ia setiina foi se faamaumauga o avega pasese e toatasi, ma e 1,122 pasese na ave. Na faia e Isaraelu le faʻafuaseʻi o le felauaiga o tagata mai atugaluga mo le saogalemu o tagata Aitiope tagata Iutaia i le lotolotoi o le le mautonu faaupufai i le atunuu.
O le 747 ua suia e ni fou ma sili atu le aoga faʻataʻitaʻiga e pei o le Boeing 787 poʻo Airbus A380, e ui e le tutusa a latou pasese.
OA MEA E AVEA MAI LENEI TUSI:
- Israeli airline El Al laid on a fitting tribute to mark the end of its use of the huge Boeing 747 aircraft dubbed ‘queen of the skies' by aviation fans, with the pilots tracing an enormous plane in the skies.
- The airline used the planes as a key element of Operation Solomon – a covert military operation which airlifted 14,500 Ethiopian Jews out of Addis Ababa and brought them to Israel in May 1990.
- The aircraft, which is being retired by airlines around the world, holds a particularly special place in the history of El Al.
