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Seating chart for American Airlines Flight 1420 created by the NTSB, revealing the location of passengers and lack of injury, severity of injuries, and deaths. The aircraft involved in the incident was a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (registration N215AA [2]), a derivative of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9, and part of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series of aircraft.
The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is a series of five-abreast single-aisle airliners developed by McDonnell Douglas.It was produced by the developer company until August 1997 and then by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
USAir Flight 1016 was a regularly scheduled flight in the southeastern United States, between Columbia, South Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina. [ 1 ] : 1 On July 2, 1994, the flight encountered heavy thunderstorms and microburst -induced windshear while attempting to land, and crashed into heavy trees and a private residence near the ...
The List of McDonnell Douglas MD-80 operators lists the current operators of the aircraft, and any of its variants. As of June 2024, a total of 123 MD-80 aircraft (all variants) were in active service.
The first derivative or second generation was the MD-80 series and the second derivative or third generation was the MD-90 series. Together, they formed the DC-9 family of 12 aircraft members (variants), and if the DC-9- designation were retained, the family members would be: First generation (Series 10, Series 20, Series 30, Series 40, and ...
McDonnell Douglas MD-83: 108 1987 One damaged as Flight 1572. One donated to George T. Baker Aviation School in 2010. One donated to Career Technology Center in 2019. Includes N984TW, the last McDonnell Douglas MD-80 ever built. McDonnell Douglas MD-87: 5 1999 2003 Unknown Former Reno Air fleet. [citation needed] McDonnell Douglas MD-90: 5 ...
On November 12, 1995, Flight 1572 was operated using a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, a twin-engine, narrow-body jet airliner (registration N566AA). [1]: 1 The aircraft was equipped with two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219 engines. [1]: 13 The MD-83 had accumulated a total of 27,628 flight hours at the time of the accident. [1]: 13
The flight crew consisted of 58-year-old Captain José Darriba, [7]: 5 out of 14,388 total flight hours, 1,400 were on the MD-80; [8]: 7 and 28-year-old First Officer Pablo Peña [7]: 6 had 269 hours of experience on the MD-80, out of 822 total flight hours.