On May 25, 2003, shortly before sunset, Padilla boarded the company’s Boeing 727-223, tail number N844AA. With him was a helper he had recently hired, John Mikel Mutantu, from the Republic of ...

The plane was going 140 mph at impact, which is close to regular landing speed. But the 727 was descending at 1,500 feet per minute, much faster than the 10 to 20 feet per minute of a typical ...

SEATTLE -- The first Boeing 727 ever built completed its final flight Wednesday morning, taking off after 25 years of restoration work on a flight from Paine Field in Everett, Wash., to its new ...