Originally Posted by
jlemon
And this may well have been Aeroflot operating an Ilyushin Il-62 with the stop in Morocco being made in between Moscow and Havana.
Indeed it was. In that year the only scheduled Aeroflot flights to Havana were ruunning 3 times a week through Casablanca/Rabat. It's a bit of a long way round, over 1,000 miles more than their traditional routing through Shannon. It's actually further from Havana to Casablanca than it is to Shannon.
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