However, after the infamous D.B. Cooper incident wherein he hijacked — then parachuted into history — from a Northwest Airlines 727 flight in November 1971, Boeing required that the plane ...

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With airlines phasing the 727 out in favor of those newer, more efficient planes, Boeing had little reason to keep the 727 around. Despite the fact that Boeing officially ended production of its ...

The airlines said, “‘We need a jet that can fly in and out of there,’” Lombardi described. “So Boeing worked on the next airplane that would fulfill that role, and that was the 727.

Northwest Airlines (NWA) purchased the Boeing 757-200 as a replacement for its 727-200 fleet and had a total of 45 of the aircraft when it merged with Delta. The -200 was the more popular variant ...