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September 21: The 707 belonging to the government of Togo coming from Valencia Airport, Spain, en route to Lomé-Tokoin Airport, Togo, experienced a cockpit fire about 200 km/125 miles from Niamey, Niger, and crash landed at Hamani Diori Airport, Niger. None of the 10 people aboard were killed, but the aircraft was destroyed by subsequent fire.
The 707-120 was the first production 707 variant, with a longer, wider fuselage, and greater wingspan than the Dash 80. The cabin had a full set of rectangular windows and could seat up to 189 passengers. [40] It was designed for transcontinental routes, and often required a refueling stop when flying across the North Atlantic.
Pan Am Flight 843 was a scheduled domestic commercial flight from San Francisco, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii.On Monday, June 28, 1965, Clipper Friendship, [2] the Boeing 707-321B operating this route, experienced an uncontained engine failure shortly after take-off, but was successfully able to make an emergency landing at nearby Travis Air Force Base. [3]
Captain Frank Staley Jr., age 43, was employed by Braniff International Airways and had accumulated 20,450 flight hours. Flight Engineer Carl Hagan, aged 28, was employed by Boeing and had accumulated 1,260 flight hours. Baum served as instructor for Captains Berke and Staley, who were on their first training flight on the 707. [3]
It was operated by a Pan Am Boeing 707-321B bearing the registration N417PA and named Clipper Winged Racer. [1] On July 22, 1973, at 10:06 P.M. local time, the Boeing 707 took off from Faa'a International Airport in Papeete. Thirty seconds after takeoff, the airliner, carrying 79 passengers and crew, crashed into the sea. All occupants except 1 ...
Pan Am Flight 214 was a scheduled flight of Pan American World Airways from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Baltimore, and then to Philadelphia in the United States. On December 8, 1963, while flying from Baltimore to Philadelphia, the Boeing 707-121 crashed near Elkton, Maryland.
Sabena Flight 571 was a scheduled passenger flight from Brussels to Tel Aviv via Vienna, operated by the Belgian national airline, Sabena.On 8 May 1972, a Boeing 707 passenger aircraft operating that service, captained by British pilot Reginald Levy, DFC, [1] was hijacked by four members of the Black September Organization, a Palestinian terrorist group.
The plane, a Boeing 707, registration PP-VJZ, made an emergency landing in onion fields about five kilometres (3.1 mi; 2.7 nmi) from Orly Airport, due to smoke in the cabin from a fire in a lavatory. The fire caused 123 deaths; there were only 11 survivors (ten crew members and one passenger).