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FedEx Express is a major American cargo airline based in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.As of 2023, it is the world's largest cargo airline in terms of fleet size and freight tons flown. [2]
FedEx Corporation, originally known as Federal Express Corporation, ... Flying Tiger Line, creating the largest full-service cargo airline in the world. In 1994 ...
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A Boeing 777F of FedEx Express, which is the largest cargo airline in the world. A Boeing 747-400F of Cargolux. Cargo airlines (or air freight carriers, and derivatives of these names) are airlines mainly dedicated to the transport of cargo by air. Some cargo airlines are divisions or subsidiaries of larger passenger airlines.
FedEx Express Flight 14 was a scheduled cargo flight from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey, via Malaysia, Taiwan, and Alaska. On July 31, 1997, the aircraft flying this route crashed during landing on its final segment at Newark International Airport (EWR), inverting and catching fire, injuring all five people on board.
[10] [20] [21] The crash was FedEx's second fatal accident involving a jet aircraft, following the loss of a FedEx owned B747-249F that crashed February 18, 1989, near Kuala Lumpur, while still painted in the Flying Tigers livery after the acquisition of the Flying Tigers Line by FedEx in December 1988. This was the first fatal accident at ...
Frederick Smith was born in Marks, Mississippi, the son of James Frederick "Fred" Smith, the founder of the Toddle House restaurant chain and the Smith Motor Coach Company (renamed the Dixie Greyhound Lines after The Greyhound Corporation bought a controlling interest in 1931). [3]
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