Word: 727s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...within the Golden Triangle-the Chicago, New York, Wash ington area-where computers assign airspace to planes. Somehow, the computer assigned Flight 37 and Flight 182 to the same airspace at the same moment. The error was theoretically impossible, but something like it happened again last week. Two Boeing 727s-a TWA craft with 77 passengers and a United Air Lines jet with 60 passengers -were in the same flight lane approaching Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. The TWA captain spotted the danger and banked to the left, passing within 300 feet of the United plane. Again...
...survived its first decade on government subsidy. Cabin service is up to the standards of Western airlines. Pilots and their crews, once mostly foreigners, are now 80% Jordanian. They fly one 707, two 720s and two Caravelles-which will doubtless be sold to make room for two new 727s recently approved for purchase by the Jordanian Cabinet. The line's major customers are still Palestinians from round the world returning home for a visit and Moslems from Arab states and Black Africa visiting Mecca for the hajj or pilgrimage that every devout Moslem is supposed to make at least...
...Western Europe, the 20th century versions of the Renaissance wandering scholars can be found any morning, boarding Caravelles or Boeing 727s at Munich or Orly, Heathrow or Schiphol. These are the dark-suited businessmen and technocrats, many in their late 30s or early 40s, who serve the border-hopping new multinational corporations. Clutching identical document cases, conversing in any one of several languages-including English, the new Europe's universal medium-these passengers are often indistinguishable by nationality even when they reach for the newspapers being passed around by stewardesses...
...gain will surely come from his expanding jet cargo business, up last year by 57% (in part because of the West Coast dock strike). To handle the new volume, Continental has placed $202 million in orders for four McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airbuses and 15 stretched Boeing 727s...
...facilities. Since the end of World War II, air service to West Berlin has been the exclusive preserve of the occupying powers' designated airlines: Pan American, British European Airways and Air France. The run has been a particularly rich prize for Pan Am. The line's Boeing 727s log 96 flights a day in winter and 117 in summer-usually with more than two-thirds of their seats filled...