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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 ...
McDonnell Douglas MD-80; McDonnell Douglas MD-81; McDonnell Douglas MD-82; McDonnell Douglas MD-83; ... Mitsubishi Navy Experimental 8-Shi Two-seat Fighter;
Alaska acquired additional MD-80s via the acquisition of Jet America Airlines in 1987. [8] Alaska was the launch customer for the MD-83 and took delivery of the first airplanes in 1985. [ 7 ] Alaska continued to take delivery of new MD-83s in the 1990s, both to meet the demands of a growing route system and to retire its aging and fuel ...
The List of McDonnell Douglas MD-80 operators lists the current operators of the aircraft, and any of its variants. As of June 2024, a total of 123 MD-80 aircraft (all variants) were in active service.
Ventral airstairs are featured on most tail-engined airliners, such as the Boeing 727, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9, MD-80 and MD-90, the BAC 1-11, and the Yakovlev Yak-40/Yak-42 series, and are incorporated as ramps which lower from the fuselage.