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The Boeing 727 is an American narrow-body airliner that was developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. After the heavier 707 quad-jet was introduced in 1958, Boeing addressed the demand for shorter flight lengths from smaller airports.
The aircraft involved was a Boeing 727-100 [a] (registration number N1996), serial number 18901. [1]: 7 The Boeing 727 was delivered to American Airlines on June 29, 1965, and had operated a total of 938 hours at the time of the accident. [1]: 7
The Boeing 727-22C aircraft, registration N7434U, [1] was almost new and had been delivered to United Airlines only four months earlier. It had less than 1,100 hours of operating time. The crew of Flight 266 was Captain Leonard Leverson, 49, a veteran pilot who had been with United Airlines for 22 years and had almost 13,700 flying hours to his ...
Pan Am Flight 759 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from Miami to San Diego, with en route stops in New Orleans and Las Vegas.On July 9, 1982, the Boeing 727 flying this route crashed in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner after being forced down by a microburst shortly after takeoff.
The aircraft used was a Boeing 727-200 purchased by the television production companies, registration XB-MNP [1] (formerly N293AS). [2] The site in Mexico was chosen because authorities in the United States would not allow the test to take place. [3] [4] The aircraft's original owner was Singapore Airlines. [5]
His co-pilot was First Officer Lenard W. Kreshec, aged 40, who had logged 6205 hours of flying time, including 1160 hours logged on the Boeing 727. The flight engineer was Thomas C. Safranek, aged 31, who had logged 2798 hours of flying time, 128 of which were logged on the Boeing 727. [8] [9]: 56–58
Watch Boeing's Starliner spacecraft undock from the International Space Station and begin its return to Earth on Friday evening. The spacescraft is returning uncrewed, leaving behind the two NASA ...
All Nippon Airways (ANA) Flight 58 was a Japanese domestic flight from Chitose Airport to Haneda Airport, operated by All Nippon Airways (ANA). On 30 July 1971, at 02:04 local time, a Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) F-86F Sabre jet fighter collided with the Boeing 727 airliner operating the flight, causing both aircraft to crash.