Skyjacked ( film ) is a 1972 film about a crazed Vietnam war veteran hijacking a Boeing 747 and demanding to be taken to Russia by the captain, Charlton Heston.

* List of Boeing 747 operators

* 1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747.

* 1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden " flight " on top of a Boeing 747.

The Boeing 747 would use B741, B742, B743, etc., depending on the particular variant.

* 1985 – A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.

* 1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first " jumbo jet ", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.

* 1996 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.

Detroit Metropolitan Airport is one of the nation's most recently expanded and modernized airports with six major runways, and large aircraft maintenance facilities capable of servicing and repairing a Boeing 747.

* 1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 ( all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am ).

* 1983 – Avianca Flight 011, a Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.

In March al-Hazmi received a shipment of VHS videos including videos about Boeing 747 and 777 flight decks and “ how an airline captain should look and act " and later a road atlas, map of NYC and a World aeronautical chart.

* 1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349.

* 1993 – A China Airlines Boeing 747 overruns Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.

The facility houses for training purposes the reconstruction of more than 90 feet of the TWA flight 800 Boeing 747, which was recovered from the Atlantic Ocean after it crashed on July 17, 1996 following a fuel tank explosion.

This density is approximately equivalent to the mass of a Boeing 747 compressed to the size of a small grain of sand, or the human population condensed to the size of a sugar cube.

* 1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.

In an effort to augment the Looking Glass mission, a 1973 initiative resulted in the establishment of the National Emergency Airborne Command Post ( NEACP ), also known as " knee cap ," resulting in the procurement of four Boeing E-4 aircraft derived from the Boeing 747.

These tests included a maiden " flight " on February 18, 1977, atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ( SCA ) to measure structural loads and ground handling and braking characteristics of the mated system.

To his ally Kenneth Kaunda Saddam once sent a Boeing 747 full of presents — rugs, televisions, ornaments.

For example, Fred Hoyle suggested that potential for life on Earth was no more probable than a Boeing 747 being assembled by a hurricane from the scrapyard.

However, an embittered Japan Air Lines pilot — driven mad by the deaths of his son and brother during the previous conflict — flies his Boeing 747 directly into the U. S. Capitol.

The aircraft involved, a Boeing 757-223, was flying American Airlines ' daily scheduled morning transcontinental service from Washington Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.

B-52 is the common name of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, a strategic bomber aircraft designed and built by Boeing for the U. S. Air Force.

All international flights are operated by Boeing 757 aircraft.

* Airbus and Boeing in the commercial large jet aircraft market

Strategic Air Command began deploying Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers and aerial refueling aircraft to the newly completed airfield facilities in 1987.

D. B. Cooper is the name popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971.

Cooper boarded the aircraft, a Boeing 727 – 100 ( FAA registration N467US ), and took seat 18C ( 18E by some accounts, 15D by another ) in the rear of the passenger cabin.

Under technical assistance contracts, Israel serviced Israeli planes within the air force inventory as well as Boeing civilian aircraft flown by TAME and Ecuatoriana Airlines.

GIA operated Boeing 757 and Boeing 767 aircraft under wet lease arrangements with other airlines, and connected Kotoka International Airport in Accra with London Gatwick and Düsseldorf.

* 2012 – The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental jumbo jet aircraft is introduced with Lufthansa.

* 1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

The aircraft, a Boeing 737, landed in a crop field not far from the city of Rafaela.

It was extended in 1995 to allow Boeing 737 aircraft to take off with maximum weight.

Boeing 737-300, 737-800 and Boeing 757 aircraft have used the airport.

The official certified U. S. Open Skies aircraft is the OC-135B Open Skies ( a military version of the Boeing 707 ).

Together, these nine airlines had a combined fleet of some 860 aircraft, mostly Boeing from the United States and Airbus from France.

To meet growing demands for passenger and cargo capacity, in 2005 these airlines significantly expanded their fleets with orders placed for additional Boeing and Airbus aircraft expected to be delivered by 2010.

Those hardware include modern aircraft such as F-15K fighters and AH-64 attack helicopters which will be used by Singapore and Japan, whose airframes will be built by Korea Aerospace Industries in a joint-production deal with Boeing.

The Sudan Airways fleet in 1991 consisted of thirteen aircraft, including five Boeing 707s used on international flights, two Boeing 737s and two Boeing 727s employed in domestic and regional services, and four Fokker F-27s used for domestic flights.