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Mechanic celebrates 70 years on the job

2012-09-03 6 Dailymotion

Most people cannot wait until the day they retire - but that is not the case for US airline mechanic Al Blackman. The 86-year-old is celebrating his seventieth year on the job and to mark the special anniversary, his employer, American Airlines, gave Blackman a ride on a vintage DC-3 plane. The young-at-heart New Yorker calls himself an antique but says he has no plans to retire any time soon. Al Jazeera's Gerald Tan reports.