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World Airways, Inc. was an American airline headquartered in Peachtree City, Georgia in Greater Atlanta. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During the regulated era that ended 1978, World was a supplemental air carrier . After US airline deregulation in 1979, the company operated mostly non-scheduled services but did fly scheduled passenger services as well, notably ...
Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways [2] and more commonly known as Pan Am, was an airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial overseas flag carrier of the United States for much of the 20th century.
Daly in 1971. Edward Joseph Daly (November 22, 1922 – January 21, 1984) was a U.S. airline executive most notable for owning World Airways, a supplemental air carrier (effectively a charter carrier from 1964 onward) which he bought in 1950 and ran until 1982.
World Airways Flight 30 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF airliner which suffered a fatal accident upon landing at Logan International Airport in Boston after departing Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey on January 23, 1982. Two of the passengers were never found, and are presumed to have drowned.
During World War II, most aircraft were used by the RAAF, however limited operations continued within Australia, to/from Singapore and on the Australia-England route. [5] The airline is the " Oldest continually operating under original name and ownership, unmerged ", world " Third oldest airline by foundation date " and the " Oldest airline in ...
It all began, says British Airways, on August 25, 1919, when the world’s first scheduled international flight between London and Paris took off with one passenger, plus some Devonshire cream and ...
Juan Terry Trippe (June 27, 1899 – April 3, 1981) was an American commercial aviation pioneer, entrepreneur and the founder of Pan American World Airways, one of the iconic airlines of the 20th century.
April 2, 1986 A bomb on board Flight 840, a Boeing 727-231, detonated over Argos, Greece, blowing a hole in the right side of the fuselage.Although four passengers were sucked out of the aircraft and killed, the aircraft landed safely at Athens with no other casualties.