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On 9 February 2024, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 registered 5Y-AXL and operated by African Express Airways crashed in similar circumstances as the Safe Air Boeing 727 did at Malakal Airport, South Sudan; the aircraft touched down short of the runway and lost its landing gear, before coming to a stop on its belly. It was later removed from the ...
LOS ANGELES — Passengers on a flight into Los Angeles got a close view of the massive wildfire burning just northwest of the airport. Matt Ginella was on the flight from San Jose to LAX when he ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
He had accumulated 5,062 flight hours, including 2,296 hours on the Boeing 727, but only 413 hours as a 727 captain. The first officer was 44-year-old Carlos Cadena Silva, also a retired Air Force officer and had been flying with TAME for a year. He had 7,872 flight hours but only 528 in this type of aircraft.