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Fuel dumping of an Airbus A340-600 above the Atlantic Ocean near Nova Scotia Fuel dump nozzle of an Airbus A340-300. Fuel dumping (or a fuel jettison) is a procedure used by aircraft in certain emergency situations before a return to the airport shortly after takeoff, or before landing short of the intended destination (emergency landing) to reduce the aircraft's weight.
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.
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 ...
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"Picture of YA-FAR – Boeing 727-113C aircraft" – Airliners.com "Report on the Accident to Boeing 727-112C YA-FAR 1.5 miles east of London (Gatwick) Airport on 5th January 1969" Archived 7 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine – Gatwick Aviation Society "Fatal Plane Crashes and Significant Events for the Boeing 727" – airsafe.com
On June 28, 1998, United Airlines Flight 863, a Boeing 747-400 flying United's regularly scheduled transpacific service from San Francisco International Airport to Sydney Airport was forced to shut down one of its right-wing engines and nearly collided with San Bruno Mountain while recovering from the engine failure.
This was the first hijacking of a Boeing 747. [53] This aircraft would be lost in the crash of Flight 1736 in 1977. August 3, 1970 Flight 742, a Boeing 727, was hijacked by a 28-year-old male passenger who demanded to go to Hungary. The aircraft continued to Berlin where the hijacker was arrested.
February 9, 1998: American Airlines Flight 1340, a Boeing 727 struck the ground short of the runway 14R threshold at Chicago O'Hare International Airport while conducting a category II instrument landing system-coupled approach. All 121 passengers and crew survived, but the aircraft was written off.