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On June 28, 1998, United Airlines Flight 863, a Boeing 747-400 flying United's regularly scheduled transpacific service from San Francisco International Airport to Sydney Airport was forced to shut down one of its right-wing engines and nearly collided with San Bruno Mountain while recovering from the engine failure.
United Airlines Flight 811 was a regularly scheduled international flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, with intermediate stops at Honolulu and Auckland.On February 24, 1989, the Boeing 747-122 serving the flight experienced a cargo-door failure in flight shortly after leaving Honolulu.
As of March 2025, the United Airlines fleet consists of 1,010 mainline aircraft, the largest of any airline worldwide. [1] United Airlines operates a mix of Airbus and Boeing narrow-body and all Boeing wide-body aircraft with more wide-bodies than any other North American passenger airline. [2] [3] The average age of United's fleet is 15.8 ...
Japan Airlines: 4 Total 747-300 Series: 81 747-400 January 26, 1989 Northwest Airlines: April 26, 2005 China Airlines: 442 747-400M (Combi) September 1, 1989 KLM: April 10, 2002 KLM: 61 747-400D October 10, 1991 Japan Airlines: December 11, 1995 All Nippon Airways: 19 747-400F November 17, 1993 Cargolux: May 7, 2009 Nippon Cargo Airlines: 126 ...
The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023. After the introduction of the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 times its size, to reduce its seat cost by 30%.
The world's largest cave is so big that a Boeing 747 could fly through its largest cavern unscathed. It could fit a Manhattan city block complete with 40-story skyscrapers and has its own weather ...
Iran Air 747SP from above, 47 ft (14 m) shorter than the 747, with four exit doors per side. Apart from having a significantly shorter fuselage and one fewer cabin door per side, the 747SP differs from other 747 variants in having simplified flaps and a taller vertical tail [5] to counteract the decrease in yaw moment-arm from the shortened fuselage.
N747PA, was the registration of a Boeing 747-121. Also known as "Clipper Juan T. Trippe", it was the second 747 ever built and was purchased by Pan Am on October 3, 1970. Following an accident in 1971, the aircraft continued service with Pan Am until the airline's collapse in 1991. It served as a freighter until 1997 when it was used as a ...