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An AeroSur Boeing 747-400, nicknamed " Torisimo ", shortly before landing at Madrid-Barajas Airport.
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* 23 July 2010: an AeroSur Boeing 737 flying from Miami, Florida, USA, to Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, with 122 passengers and 6 crew members on board, lost cabin pressurization at 08: 00 UTC over the Brazilian Amazonia and therefore was forced to land at Rio Branco International Airport.
During the 2000s, AeroSur renewed and expanded its fleet, introducing larger aircraft of the types Boeing 747, Boeing 757 and Boeing 767, which made the inauguration of long-haul flights possible.
The subsidiary dubbed AeroSur Paraguay was planned to operate two Boeing 737-200 aircraft of mainline AeroSur.
For example Boeing 727s, used by AeroSur ( Bolivia ), are not able to land or take off from these fields.
AeroSur and Airport
** Santa Cruz de la Sierra ( Viru Viru International Airport ) on behalf of AeroSur to Miami ) Service ended mid-2010
AeroSur and .
LAB operated a limited number of charter flights during late 2007 and early 2008 on behalf of AeroSur, but has since fully gone out of business, with its airline license officially been revoked in 2010.
Compañía Boliviana de Transporte Aéreo Privado Aerosur, S. A., shortened and styled AeroSur, was a privately owned airline from Bolivia, which served as the country's flag carrier since 1998, along with state-owned Boliviana de Aviación.
AeroSur was established in April 1992, following the deregulation of the Bolivian airline market, which previously had been controlled by state-owned Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano.
Since then AeroSur has struggled to keep its operations running smoothly and returned its 767 aircraft to the lessor.
On 17 May 2012 AeroSur suspended all its flights again, and other airlines such as state-owned Boliviana de Aviación have since began to fill the void left by AeroSur.
The airline worked together with well-known airlines such as AeroSur in a variety of codeshare agreements.
Boeing and 747-400
* 2000 – A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 operating as Flight 006 collides with construction equipment upon takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan killing 79 passengers and four crew members.
Nonetheless, terrorism was officially ruled out as the cause by the National Transportation Safety Board, which instead attributed the disaster to the first officer's overuse of rudder controls in response to wake turbulence released by a Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400.
Since 2003, Bahrain has been granted over $ 100 million in Foreign Military Funding to pay for various high profile weapons systems, to include an AN / TPS-59 ( v ) 3B Early Warning Radar, Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures ( LAIRCM ), Air-to-Air Missile Avoidance System for the King's Plane ( Boeing 747-400 ), as well as an Avenger Air Defense Vehicle.
This use was made redundant with the availability of Russian airspace due to the breakup of the Soviet Union and the advent of longer-range aircraft introduced in the late 1980s and early 1990s such as the Airbus A340, the Airbus A380, the Boeing 747-400 and the Boeing 777 series aircraft, which had the range to fly between Europe and Southeast Asia nonstop.
On 15 December 1989 a KLM Boeing 747-400 ( Flight 867 ) also lost power to all four engines after flying into an ash cloud from Mount Redoubt, Alaska.
* On June 28, 1998, United Airlines Flight 863, a Boeing 747-400, cleared nearby San Bruno Mountain by only after a pilot erred in correcting for a failed engine during takeoff.
Boeing and nicknamed
Service was started with a Boeing 727-100, number 475, which was nicknamed " Ju-Ju ," and a Douglas DC-6.
* November 3 – The last flight of an EC-135E Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft takes place as a United States Air Force flight crew from the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California, delivers the last Boeing EC-135E ( serial number 60-374, nicknamed The Bird of Prey ), with full Prime Mission Electronic Equipment ( PMEE ), to the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
Follett is careful to state that, though the flight and all of the characters are fictional the plane, a Boeing 314, was real and was nicknamed the " Pan Am Clipper.
It was nicknamed " Boeing Hill " in the 1950s and 60s due to the number of residents who worked in the nearby airplane factory.
One of atomic bombs ( nicknamed ' Fat Man ' and dropped on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945 ) was fueled by Hanford plutonium and was transported in Boeing B-29s, also designed in Washington State.
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