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2 China Airlines Taiwan: 4 Condor Germany: 7 8 Continental Airlines United States: 26 109 Cruzeiro do Sul Brazil: 2 Delta Air Lines United States: 8 183 Dominicana de Aviación Dominican Republic: 5 9 Ceased operations in 1999 Eastern Air Lines United States: 75 99 Launch customer of 727-100 Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopia: 4 Faucett Perú Peru: 5 3
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 ...
July 26, 2002: FedEx Express Flight 1478, a 727-200F (registration N497FE) had initially briefed the approach to runway 27 of Tallahassee Municipal Airport near Tallahassee, Florida. The plane crashed, all three crew members survived. [76] May 25, 2003: A 727-200, registration number N844AA, was stolen from Quatro de Fevereiro Airport in Luanda ...
On March 2, 2016, the first 727 produced (N7001U), which first flew on February 9, 1963, made a flight to a museum after extensive restoration. The 727-100 had carried about three million passengers during its years of service. Originally a prototype, it was later sold to United Airlines, which donated it to the Museum of Flight in Seattle in 1991.
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 ...
Aerosucre Flight 157 was a domestic cargo flight from Germán Olano Airport in Puerto Carreño, Colombia, to El Dorado International Airport, Bogotá.On 20 December 2016, the Boeing 727-2J0F operating the route overran the runway during takeoff, striking the perimeter fence and other obstacles before becoming airborne, ultimately losing control and crashing 4 nmi (4.6 mi; 7.4 km) from the airport.
Five seconds later (at 13:45 EST), the crew saw the Boeing 727, Northwest Flight 299 to Memphis, heading toward them on its takeoff roll. The 727's wing cut through the right side of the DC-9's fuselage just below the windows, then continued aft, finally cutting off the DC-9's right side (#2) engine. The DC-9 caught fire and was destroyed. [3]
First Officer Fox had a total of 10,049 flight hours, including 5,800 hours on the 727. Flight Engineer Wahne had a total of 10,800 flying hours, with 6,587 hours in the 727. The flight from Sacramento to Los Angeles was uneventful; at 8:34 am PDT, Flight 182 departed Los Angeles, with First Officer Fox as the pilot flying. There were 128 ...