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While Boeing 747s were still used on the same route operating with the new flight numbers in the years following the crash, they were replaced by the Boeing 767 or Boeing 777 in the mid-1990s. Boeing 747-100SRs continued to serve JAL on domestic routes until their retirement in 2006, having been replaced by newer widebody aircraft, such as the ...
United Airlines Flight 811 was a regularly scheduled international flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, with intermediate stops at Honolulu and Auckland.On February 24, 1989, the Boeing 747-122 serving the flight experienced a cargo-door failure in flight shortly after leaving Honolulu.
On July 17, 1996, at approximately 8:31 p.m. EDT, twelve minutes after takeoff, the Boeing 747-100 serving the flight exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, United States. [2]: 1 All 230 people on board died in the crash; it is the third-deadliest aviation accident in U.S. history.
Delta Air Lines Flight 1141, a Boeing 727 flying between Dallas-Fort Worth and Salt Lake City on Aug. 31, 1988, crashed shortly after takeoff. Of the 108 on board, two crew members and 12 ...
A Delta Air Lines crash in 1985 in Texas saw 27 survivors, most of whom were seated in the back of the aircraft. ... a Pan Am and a KLM Boeing 747 collided in Tenerife, Spain, killing 583 people ...
[2]: 3, 15 The first officer was 40-year-old Song Kyung-ho (송경호; 宋慶昊), who had more than 4,000 hours flying experience, with 1,560 of them on the Boeing 747. The flight engineer was 57-year-old Nam Suk-hoon ( 남석훈 ; 南錫薰 ), [ 8 ] a veteran pilot with more than 13,000 flight hours, 1,573 of which were on the Boeing 747.
UPS Airlines Flight 6 was a scheduled international cargo flight operated by UPS.On September 3, 2010, the Boeing 747-400F flying the route between Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Cologne, Germany, developed an in-flight fire, which caused the aircraft to crash, killing both crew members, the only people on board.
On June 28, 1998, United Airlines Flight 863, a Boeing 747-400 flying United's regularly scheduled transpacific service from San Francisco International Airport to Sydney Airport was forced to shut down one of its right-wing engines and nearly collided with San Bruno Mountain while recovering from the engine failure.