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The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range narrow-body airliner, ... This version was made obsolete by the arrival of the turbofan-powered 707-120B. 707-320
July 11:, Varig Flight 820, a 707-345C, on scheduled airline service from Galeão Airport, Rio de Janeiro, to Orly Airport, Paris, made an emergency landing in a field in the Orly community due to smoke in the cabin. The fire, smoke, and crash resulted in 123 deaths, with 11 survivors (10 crew, one passenger).
The aircraft involved was a Boeing 707-227 registered as N7071 with serial number 17691. It was manufactured on June 11, 1959. It was manufactured on June 11, 1959. It was operated by Boeing and it had accumulated 173 flight hours.
The aircraft, bearing the registration N708PA and named Clipper Constitution by its owner Pan American World Airways (Pan Am), [1] was the first Boeing 707 ever built that had made the first flight of the type on 20 December 1957.
By the time the Boeing company committed to production, the decision had been made to design the production model 707 as a six-abreast design, with a larger 148-inch-diameter (376 cm) fuselage, after C. R. Smith, CEO of American Airlines, told Boeing he wouldn't buy the 707 unless it was an inch wider than the then-proposed Douglas DC-8 ...
American Airlines Flight 1502 was a crew training flight from Idlewild International Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport).On January 28, 1961, the Boeing 707 operating the flight crashed out of control into the Atlantic Ocean 9.5 miles (15.3 km) west of Montauk Point, New York, and all six crew on board were killed. [1]
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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.