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Launch customer of 727-100 Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopia: 4 Faucett Perú Peru: 5 3 FedEx Express United States: 83 60 Frontier Airlines United States: 7 3 Hapag-Lloyd Flug Germany: 8 3 Hughes Airwest United States: 3 11 Iberia Spain: 2 48 Icelandair Iceland: 5 2 Iran Air Iran: 6 3 Iraqi Airways Iraq: 12 Japan Airlines Japan: 23 Japan Domestic ...
On 9 February 2024, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 registered 5Y-AXL and operated by African Express Airways crashed in similar circumstances as the Safe Air Boeing 727 did at Malakal Airport, South Sudan; the aircraft touched down short of the runway and lost its landing gear, before coming to a stop on its belly. It was later removed from the ...
A Boeing 727-223F(Adv) of USA Jet Airlines on final approach to Chino Airport. A Dassult Falcon FA-20 in one of the older liveries of USA Jet Airlines. USA Jet Airlines is an American cargo airline with its headquarters on the grounds of Willow Run Airport , and in Van Buren Township, Michigan .
The crew consisted of Captain George T. Kunz (age 55), employed by National Airlines since 1956, who had qualified to fly the Boeing 727 in 1967 and accumulated 18,109 flight hours in his career with 5,358 hours on the Boeing 727; First Officer Leonard G. Sanderson Jr. (31), employed by National Airlines since 1976, with 4,848 flight hours of which 842 hours were on the Boeing 727; and Flight ...
The crash was the subject of a Discovery Channel television series Curiosity 2-hour episode "Plane Crash". [14] [15] The episode was aired on 7 October 2012, and narrated by Josh Charles. [15] [16] The 1-hour-35-minute episode "The Plane Crash" aired on Channel 4 in Britain on 11 October 2012.
The Boeing 727 is an American narrow-body airliner that was developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.After the heavier 707 quad-jet was introduced in 1958, Boeing addressed the demand for shorter flight lengths from smaller airports.
Aerosucre Flight 157 was a domestic cargo flight from Germán Olano Airport in Puerto Carreño, Colombia, to El Dorado International Airport, Bogotá.On 20 December 2016, the Boeing 727-2J0F operating the route overran the runway during takeoff, striking the perimeter fence and other obstacles before becoming airborne, ultimately losing control and crashing 4 nmi (4.6 mi; 7.4 km) from the airport.
On March 2, 2016, after extensive restoration, N7001U made its final flight from Paine Field near Everett, Washington to the museum's facility at Boeing Field. [5] The aircraft was a notable exception to Boeing's practice of retaining first production examples of its jet airliners for testing and development; not until the Boeing 777 of the 1990s would such an aircraft see regular airline service.