Word: 727s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, approaching Chicago on a clear night, a United Airlines 727 from New York plunged into Lake Michigan, taking with it all 30 passengers and crew. Last week two more 727s crashed on approaches to airports at Cincinnati and Salt Lake City, taking 99 lives...
...only cut back personnel but has also reduced its fleet from 85 planes to 40-and is doing more business than ever. Lufthansa is switching completely to Boeing planes, plans to add 21 short-haul 737s to its fleet of longer-range 707s and 727s. Reason: nearly 48% of the parts of the 737 are interchangeable with those of the 727, a fact that will produce major economies in maintenance costs...
...recently wrested from Los Angeles' Douglas Aircraft), but also gained dramatically in its race to catch up with Douglas and British Aircraft Corp. in sales of short-range jets. United will acquire 130 Boeing planes in all: 70 twin-jet short-range 737s, 30 medium-range tri-jet 727s and 30 "quick-change" 727s with interiors that can be converted from passenger to cargo fittings in 20 minutes. The new 727s will enable the airline to squeeze an anticipated 31 hours more of daily use from each plane by converting it to haul freight at night...
Tiny but Aggressive. With bus-schedule regularity, a weekly total of 1,105 nonstop flights shuttle between Los Angeles and San Francisco. United has assigned its three newest Boeing 727 jets exclusively to the route. Pacific Southwest has ordered five 727s and Western four 720B jets to throw into the battle. Both United and TWA have lowered their one-way jet coach fares from $23.70 to only $14.50 to compete with Western's rock-bottom $11.43 flights on venerable DC-6Bs. Western promptly lodged a protest with the Civil...
...Boeing, the two big U.S.jetmakers, regard Latin America as one of the biggest potential markets anywhere. Both have sales teams touring Latin America making a hard pitch for their new DC-9 and 727 medium-to-short-range jets. Last month Boeing sent one of its three-engined 727s to strut its stuff on a 14-day tour of five South American countries. It was the first jet ever to land at La Paz (elevation: 13,358 ft.). As bowler-hatted Indian women gaped at the sight, the silvery 727 howled down the runway and took off -using only...