ESCAPE to WEST BERLIN

摘要

Even today, some Berliners fluent in the city's dialect, Berlinerisch, recall the joke. The name of Poland's national airline LOT, it went, stood for 'Landet ooch Tempelhof' - 'Also lands at Tempelhof'. After all, the sight of hijacked LOT airliners on the tarmac at West Berlin's historic airport was, in the late 1970s and early '80s, quite a familiar one.