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On December 3, 1990, two Northwest Airlines jetliners collided at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. Flight 1482, a scheduled Douglas DC-9-14 operating from Detroit to Pittsburgh International Airport, taxied by mistake onto an active runway in dense fog and was hit by a departing Boeing 727 operating as Flight 299 to Memphis International Airport.
The plane landed one hour and 45 minutes later. The FBI arrested the man responsible. [8] February 16, 1968: Civil Air Transport Flight 010, a 727-100C, crashed on approach to Taipei, Republic of China. The flight carried 63 passengers and crew; 18 passengers, 3 crew and one person on the ground died. [9]
The flight engineer was 60-year-old Leo B. Noone, who had 19,904 flying hours, including 10,508 hours on the Boeing 727. [ 1 ] : 78–79 All three flight crew, including the captain, the first officer and the second officer, were reported having no sleep or health problems, and had passed all proficiency checks without issues.
[110] [111] Lion Air expressed objections because NTSC's draft, according to a source who requested anonymity, attributed 25 lapses to Lion Air out of 41 lapses found. [112] Also, doubts arose about the acceptability of some photographs used in the investigation, as they could be fabricated evidence of repair to the doomed Lion Air MAX.
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 was the fatal crash of a Boeing 727 in the eastern United States on December 1, 1974 in Harriman State Park near Stony Point, New York, just north of the New York City area. The Northwest Airlines 727 had been chartered to pick up the Baltimore Colts professional football team in Buffalo in western New York ...
End of an Era as FedEx Express Retires Last B727 Farewell Celebration Marks End of Venerable Aircraft; Fleet Modernization Adds More Energy-Efficient, Lower-Emission Planes MEMPHIS, Tenn ...
Maxim put the film at the top of their 2007 list of "The Top Ten Most Horrific Movie Plane Crashes", a decision that was derided by Wired. [52] [3] 1998 U.S. Marshals: Depicts the crash of a 727 from the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS). [53] 1999 Fight Club: A vivid mid-air collision occurs in the imagination of the ...
A Yakovlev Yak-42D, the first aircraft of Lion Air, landing in Singapore A Lion Air McDonnell Douglas MD-82 at Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport. The airline was established in October 1999 by Rusdi and Kusnan Kirana and started operations on 30 June 2000, when it began scheduled passenger services from Jakarta to Denpasar and Pontianak using a leased Boeing 737-200.