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Boeing 707 aircraft were purchased in 1973 to allow for expansion in the charter holiday market, and at the same time the company acquired its first helicopters to serve the North Sea oil fields from Esbjerg.
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From International Airport in Los Angeles to International Airport in Houston, as the great four-jet Boeing 707 flies, is a routine five hours and 25 minutes, including stopovers at Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio.
* 1975 – A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
By the 1950s, the development of civil jets grew, beginning with the de Havilland Comet, though the first widely-used passenger jet was the Boeing 707, because it was much more economical than other planes at the time.
* 1963 – Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, United States, killing all 81 people on board.
* 1989 – An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Pico Alto mountain in the island of Santa Maria in the Azores, killing 144.
* 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashes after an aborted takeoff from Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130.
* 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113.
* 1973 – A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
* 1954 – First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
* 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.
In 1967, a Boeing 707, capable of carrying 160 passengers was introduced on the Paris-Mauritius line, decreasing the travel time to 18 hours.
* 1958 – Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
* 1976 – A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 ( 97, mostly children, killed on the ground ).
The official certified U. S. Open Skies aircraft is the OC-135B Open Skies ( a military version of the Boeing 707 ).
The museum annex houses an Air France Concorde ; the Enola Gay B-29 ; the Space Shuttle Discovery ; the Boeing 367 – 80, which was the prototype of the Boeing 707 ; the SR-71 ; and other famous aerospace artifacts, particularly those too large for the main building on the National Mall.
** The 1977 IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash in Lusaka, Zambia kills all six on board.
* December 20 – The Boeing 707 airliner flies for the first time.
** A Sabena Boeing 707 crashes near Brussels, Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team and several coaches.
** An American Airlines Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff at New York International Airport, after a rudder malfunction causes an uncontrolled roll, resulting in the loss of control of the aircraft, with the loss of all life on board.
* June 3 – Air France Flight 007, a Boeing 707, crashes on take-off at Orly Airport in Paris ; 130 of 132 people on board are killed, 2 flight attendants survive.
* June 22 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes into terrain during bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing all 113 on board.
** A Royal Jordanian Boeing 707 flight from Jeddah crashes in Kano, Nigeria ; 176 people are killed.
* May 14 – The Boeing 707 is released after about two years of development.
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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.
A Boeing 747 aircraft with livery designating it as Air Force One.
* 2012 – The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental jumbo jet aircraft is introduced with Lufthansa.
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.
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.
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.
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