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On December 15, 2015, Southwest Airlines Flight 31, a Boeing 737-300, from Houston, Texas, exited the taxiway and rolled into a ditch shortly after arriving into Nashville as the airplane was entering the terminal ramp because of the nosegear collapsing. All 138 passengers and crew were safely evacuated from the plane and bussed into the airport.
TWA reluctantly ruled out Chicago, as its Chicago operation was already losing $25 million a year under competition from American Airlines and United Airlines. This meant that St. Louis was the carrier's only viable option. TWA downsized in Chicago and built up in St. Louis, swapping three Chicago gates for five of American's St. Louis gates.
The flight had a crew of 2 pilots and 15 passengers. There were no fatalities nor serious injuries. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair. [73] On January 4, 1985, an armed 42-year-old Cleveland woman named Oranette Mays hijacked Pan Am flight 558, a Boeing 727 scheduled to fly from Cleveland to New York City's John F. Kennedy International ...
Nashville will be celebrating the 4th of July with its annual "Let Freedom Sing!" event, which will be broadcasted live and livestreamed from Music City. The celebration includes a lineup of free ...
A long-awaited plan to make it easier to travel through Nashville's downtown is now live, and accepting public feedback. ConnectDowntown is a 10-year action plan for traffic and transportation ...
The single-engine plane came down about 60 feet away from eastbound lanes of Interstate 40, near the Nashville suburb of Charlotte Park, just before 8 p.m. Monday, officials said.
Southwest Airlines was founded in 1966 by Herbert Kelleher and Rollin King, and incorporated as Air Southwest Co. in 1967.Three other airlines (Braniff, Trans-Texas Airways, and Continental Airlines) took legal action to try to prevent the company from its planned strategy of undercutting their prices by flying only within Texas and thus being exempt from regulation by the federal Civil ...
The Chicago area, featuring Chicago Midway and O'Hare International Airports. In 1931, a new passenger terminal opened at 62nd St; [9] the following year the airport claimed to be the "World's Busiest" with over 100,846 passengers on 60,947 flights. [11] (The July 1932 Official Aviation Guide (OAG) shows 206 scheduled airline departures a week.)