Boeing 727 models were produced from 1963 to 1984 and ... and were known for a set of stairs that opened from a hatch at their rear underbelly. During its time parked at the El Paso airport ...

In fact, the Boeing 727 held the record for the best-selling ... the third of its three Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines sits atop the rear center of the fuselage in a T-tail configuration.

On April 27, 2012, a passenger plane, a Boeing 727, smashed into the Mexican desert ... would have survived with minor injuries, while the rear at 6g would only have felt like being hit by a ...