Boeing 727 Timeline of Events

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Boeing 727

The Boeing 727 is a mid-size, narrow-body, three-engine, T-tailed commercial jet airliner, manufactured by Boeing. The Boeing 727 first flew in 1963, and for over a decade more were built per year than any other jet airliner. When production ended in 1984 a total of 1,832 aircraft had been produced...

Timeline of Events

1966

2.4.1966

All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 jet plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.

11.15.1966

A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.

1971

9.4.1971

A Boeing 727 carrying Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.

1974

12.1.1974

TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport killing all 92 people on-board.

1975

6.24.1975

An Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.

1976

9.19.1976

Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.

1978

9.25.1978

PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.

1983

7.11.1983

A Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.

12.7.1983

An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 93 people.

1985

2.19.1985

Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.

1986

3.31.1986

A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166.

1988

3.17.1988

A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.

1989

11.27.1989

Avianca Flight 203, a Boeing 727, explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel claimed responsibility for the attack.

1991

12.4.1991

Captain Mark Pyle pilots ''Clipper Goodwill'', a Pan American World Airways Boeing 727-221ADV, to Miami International Airport ending 64 years of Pan Am operations.

1998

10.10.1998

A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.

2002

1.28.2002

TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.