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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.
American Airlines was the first US major carrier to order the MD-80 when it leased twenty 142-seat aircraft from McDonnell Douglas in October 1982 to replace its Boeing 727-100s. It committed to 67 firm orders plus 100 options in March 1984, and in 2002 its fleet peaked at more than 360 aircraft, 30% of the 1,191 produced.
Airbus A320 (foreground) and Boeing 737-900 (background), both narrow-bodies. Historically, beginning in the late 1960s and continuing through the 1990s, twin engine narrow-body aircraft, such as the Boeing 737 Classic, McDonnell-Douglas MD-80 and Airbus A320 were primarily employed in short to medium-haul markets requiring neither the range nor the passenger-carrying capacity of that period's ...
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30: 16 84 (84/0) 2004 Fleet included DC-9 series 32 models [52] McDonnell Douglas MD-81: 8 143 (12/131) 2008 MD-80 series aircraft added to the fleet enabled the airline to fly nonstop between Milwaukee and U.S. West Coast destinations such as Los Angeles and San Francisco . They were configured with 112 Signature seats ...
The McDonnell Douglas (later Boeing) MD-90 is an American five-abreast single-aisle airliner developed by McDonnell Douglas from its successful model MD-80. The airliner was produced by the developer company until 1997 and then by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It was a stretched derivative of the MD-80 and thus part of the DC-9 family.
McDonnell Douglas DC-9: United States 2 1965 1965 1982 976 34 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Super 80/MD-80: United States [g] 2 1979 1980 1999 1,191 250 McDonnell Douglas DC-10/MD-10: United States 3 1970 1971 1988 386 9 (December 2024) McDonnell Douglas MD-11: United States 3 1990 1990 2000 200 66 (December 2024) Tupolev Tu-134: USSR 2 1963 1967 1984 ...
The aircraft involved was a twin-engined McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (registration number N312RC), a derivative of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and part of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series of aircraft. [ 1 ] : 1 The jet was manufactured in 1981, entered service with Republic Airlines , and was acquired by Northwest Airlines in its merger with ...
ALM MD-80 in Miami. In 1975, ALM replaced its older DC-9s with the new McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 series, significantly increasing seating capacity. Two years later, a Boeing 727 was added for additional routes to Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, and New York, which were mostly operated as charter flights. During this period ALM grew rapidly and its ...