They called it the “Lolita Express” before they even realised what they were naming. The words stuck like a pin in the public imagination, fastening a Boeing 727 forever to a myth so potent that even photographs of the aircraft seem stained by implication. To many, the plane is no longer a machine but a symbol—a white silhouette with a dark reputation, …
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