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The 727-200 (here from Olympic Airways) is 20 ft (6.1 m) longer. This aircraft is the prototype of 727-200. A stretched version of the 727-100, the -200 is 20 feet (6.1 m) longer (153 feet 2 inches or 46.69 metres) than the -100 (133 feet 2 inches or 40.59 metres).
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 was the fatal crash of a Boeing 727 in the eastern United States on December 1, 1974 in Harriman State Park near Stony Point, New York, just north of the New York City area. The Northwest Airlines 727 had been chartered to pick up the Baltimore Colts professional football team in Buffalo in western New York ...
The aircraft involved, a Boeing 727-200 registered CP-1276, was substantially damaged but could safely be landed. There were no fatalities among the other 119 passengers and seven crew members. [46] February 19, 1985: Iberia Airlines Flight 610 crashed after striking a television antenna while landing in Bilbao; all 148 people on board died.
As well as commercial operators the 727 has been used by military, government and private operators. The United States military used the 727 as a military transport, designated as the C-22. Afghanistan. Afghan Air Force Angola. Angolan Air Force Belgium. Belgian Air Force Benin. Military of Benin Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso Air Force [5] Cameroon
The aircraft involved was a Boeing 727-231, registered as N54328 with serial number 20306. It was manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes on March 3, 1970 and in its four years of service, it had logged 11997 hours and 10 minutes of flying time.
The accident occurred at 01:35 [note 1] on a Sunday morning, a time when the Gatwick area was enveloped in patches of dense, freezing fog. The Boeing 727, registered as YA-FAR (the sole aircraft of this model in the airline's fleet), descended below its correct glide slope as it approached the airport from the east.
The crash of Flight 182 was preceded by a near-tragedy almost ten years earlier (also involving Pacific Southwest Airlines), when, on January 15, 1969, a PSA Boeing 727-214 (#N973PS) had collided with Cessna 182L (#N42242) on-ascent from San Francisco International Airport, bound for Ontario International Airport. The 727 continued on to ...
Boeing 737-200s arrived in 1968; six 727-100s were added from 1977, and in June 1981 the airline added the Boeing 727-200. Piedmont's fleet was all-turbine after the last Martin 4-0-4 piston powered flights in 1972 and all-jet after the last NAMC YS-11 turboprop flights in 1982 (one 727-100 that Piedmont bought from Northwest Orient Airlines ...