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* 1976 – A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 ( 97, mostly children, killed on the ground ).
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1976 and Bolivian
However, there is some Amerindian heritage among prior Bolivian presidents, such as Andrés de Santa Cruz ( 1829 — who claimed that through his mother he was descended from Inca rulers, Mariano Melgarejo ( 1864 ), Carlos Quintanilla ( 1939 ), René Barrientos ( 1964 ), Juan José Torres ( 1976 ), Luis García Meza ( 1980 ), and Celso Torrelio ( 1981 ).
In 1976 there had been plans to send great part of the Uruguayan Tupamaros ( MLN-T ), the Chilean Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria ( MIR ) and the Bolivian National Liberation Army ( ELN ) to fight alongside the ERP and Montoneros in Argentina, but the plans failed to materialize largely due to the military coup.
1976 and Boeing
* 1976 – Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
Boeing 737s were introduced in 1976, and the company became a test case for the Boeing, which evaluated the performance of the airline's 737 on the short runway at Vágar Airport in the Faroes.
* On 25 December 1976 – EgyptAir Flight 864, a Boeing 707-300 bound for Bangkok from Cairo, crashed into an industrial area near the airport during a landing attempt.
From August 1976 to December 1996, South African Airways made use of Upington as a refuelling station for two weekly scheduled Boeing 747 flights to London and Zurich.
And in February of 1976, Eastern was flying direct, no change of plane service from Los Angeles to Melbourne with one intermediate stop in Atlanta that was flown with a Boeing 727-100.
With leased Lockheed L-1011 Tristar and Boeing 737 aircraft joining the fleet, by 1976 Gulf Air had expanded its route network to include Amman, Amsterdam, Athens, Baghdad, Bombay, Bangkok, Beirut, Cairo, Colombo, Delhi, Dhaka, Hong Kong, Jeddah, Karachi, Khartoum, Larnaca, Manila, Paris, Ras al-Khaimah and San ‘ a ’.
In all, two Boeing 707-430s and six Boeing 707-320s were leased in ( respectively from British Airtours and British Midland Airways ) at various times between 1974 and 1976 and were used to reinforce frequencies and add new destinations to the network.
Syrianair started its Boeing 747SP operations on June 1, 1976, using the jumbo jet on the Damascus-Munich-London sector.
A Boeing 737-200 ( C2-RN3 ) was added to the fleet in 1975 and a Boeing 727-100 ( C2-RN4 ) entered service on 16 June 1976.
Boeing 707 # 707-320C | Boeing 707-338C G-BDLM of British Caledonian, Caledonian's successor, at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport | Nairobi Embakasi in February 1976
International services commenced very early on in the history of the airline with a leased Boeing B720 from 6 February 1976 to 2 February 1977.
The MBTA's first Boeing light rail vehicles operated on the " D " Branch on December 30, 1976, and turned around at Park Street or Government Center due to the North Station loop catenary not yet upgraded for pantographs.
American Airlines Flight 625, a Boeing 727, crashed at St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands on April 27, 1976 while on a domestic scheduled passenger flight originating at T. F. Green Airport in Rhode Island and ending at Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands with an intermediate stop at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
According to the February 1, 1976 edition of the Official Airline Guide ( OAG ), Delta was operating thirty-three ( 33 ) flights a day with Boeing 727-200 and Douglas DC-9-30 jetliners from Shreveport.
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