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The last Southwest 737-300 revenue flight took place on September 29, 2017. [12] Southwest was the launch customer for the Boeing 737-500, a smaller version of the 737-300. [10] Introduced in 1990, the airliner seated 122 passengers—the same as the older 737-200—but had increased fuel capacity and range.
Southwest Air Lines Flight 611 was a scheduled flight from Naha to Ishigaki. On 26 August 1982, the Boeing 737-200 overran the runway while attempting to land. The aircraft caught fire and was destroyed, but none of the 133 passengers and 5 crew died in the accident although two crew and one passenger were seriously injured.
Southwest Airlines is the largest Boeing 737 operator. ... Royal Thai Air Force for Thai Royal Family (one 737-200, two 737-400 and one 737-800WL) [16] [17] Turkey: 4.
Boeing 737-200 in original livery in 1975. Founded in 1967 as a Texas intrastate airline, Southwest Airlines started operating from Dallas Love Field which remains the company's corporate headquarters and major operating base.
Southwest Airlines was founded in 1966 by Herbert Kelleher and Rollin King, and incorporated as Air Southwest Co. in 1967.Three other airlines (Braniff, Trans-Texas Airways, and Continental Airlines) took legal action to try to prevent the company from its planned strategy of undercutting their prices by flying only within Texas and thus being exempt from regulation by the federal Civil ...
A 737-200 of its launch customer, United Airlines. The -200 was one of the most popular variants sold, with 1095 units. The 737-200 was a 737-100 with an extended fuselage, launched by an order from United Airlines in 1965 and entered service with the launch customer in April 1968. Its unit cost was US$4.0M (1968) [28] ($35M today).
The aircraft was a 13-year-old Boeing 737-7H4, registered as N753SW, owned and operated by Southwest Airlines. [1] [5] [8] [10] The serial number of the aircraft was 29848 and its line number was 400. The aircraft first flew on October 6, 1999, and was delivered to Southwest Airlines on October 21.
September 3, 1989 – A 737-200 registered as PP-VMK operating Varig Flight 254 flying from São Paulo-Guarulhos to Belém-Val de Cans with intermediate stops, crashed near São José do Xingu while on the last leg of the flight between Marabá and Belém due to a pilot navigational error, which led to fuel exhaustion and a subsequent belly ...