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CA dedicates plane to the first civil African Captain
Houston, Usa - Marlon Green, who broke racial barriers in pilot hiring
Continental Airlines named one of its aircraft in honor of its late Capt. Marlon Green, who won a landmark legal battle to become the first African American pilot hired by a major U.S. passenger airline, in a special ceremony at "Bush Intercontinental Airport". Green resigned from the U.S. Air Force in 1957 after nine years and more than 3,000 hours of flying multi-engine aircraft to apply for...
fra/pec - 1114466
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency