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China Airlines Flight 006 was a daily non-stop international passenger flight from Taipei to Los Angeles International Airport.On February 19, 1985, the Boeing 747SP operating the flight was involved in an aircraft upset accident, following the failure of the No. 4 engine, while cruising at 41,000 ft (12,500 m).
British Airways Flight 009, sometimes referred to by its callsign Speedbird 9 or as the Jakarta incident, [1] was a scheduled British Airways flight from London Heathrow to Auckland, with stops in Bombay, Kuala Lumpur, Perth, and Melbourne. On 24 June 1982, the route was flown by City of Edinburgh, a Boeing 747-236B registered as G
The aircraft involved was the prototype Boeing 747-400 (Boeing 747-451, c/n 23719, reg N661US) and was built by Boeing, and started the flight testing program for the new model, registered as N401PW, in April 1988. It was subsequently reregistered as N661US and delivered to Northwest Airlines (the launch customer for the 747-400) on December 8 ...
For over 50 years, Boeing's <BA.N> "Queen of the Skies" has been the world's most easily recognised jetliner with its humped fuselage and four engines. British Airways (BA) had been planning to ...
The Boeing 747 was the first "jumbo jet". It was a prestige aircraft in the 1970s and purchased by many airlines as a fleet flagship. [5] Olympic Airways received its first 747 in 1973. [6] Olympic Airways was the flag carrier for Greece and had purchased 747s for some of its prime routes, including a nonstop between Athens and New York. [3]
The flight was under the command of 42-year-old Captain Park Yong-chul (Korean: 박용철; Hanja: 朴鏞喆) [6] The captain had close to 9,000 hours of flight time, including 3,192 on the Boeing 747, and had recently received a flight safety award for successfully landing a 747 that had suffered an engine failure at low altitude. [7]
In January, United Airlines announced that it will expedite the retirement of its fleet of Boeing 747-400 jumbo jets. United Airlines CEO explains why the Boeing 747 jumbo jet will soon go away ...
[note 3] [8] [9] All three pilots were highly experienced – both pilots had more than 10,100 hours of flying time and the flight engineer had logged more than 19,100 flight hours. [10]: 3 At 15:16 local time, the flight was cleared to climb to flight level 350—about 35,000 feet (11,000 m). At 15:33, contact with the plane was lost.