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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.
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]
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]
In 1973, Captain Araújo da Silva was the Captain of Varig Flight 820, a Boeing 707 carrying 134 people that crashed before it was due to land at Orly Airport in Paris, with the loss of 123 passengers and crew. [6] In 1979, at the time of disappearance, he had more than 23,000 hours logged. [5]
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.
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 ...
Of the crew, Captain Araújo da Silva, First Officer Basso, Flight Engineer Bello, Navigator Gomes da Cunha, Relief Captain Fuzimoto, Chief Purser Galleti and Attendants Pires de Oliveira and Piha were in the cockpit and evacuated from there, and Tersis and Brandão escaped out of the forward galley.