VIDEO Martin's Air Charter Convair CV-340 (ZS-BRV) lifting off from Wonderboom Airport, South Africa which crashed shortly after due to engine problems. Killing 1 of 20. The aircraft was seen ...

Here’s a look back at commercial passenger plane crashes that stunned Chicago. May 31, 1936. A Transcontinental and Western airliner carrying 15 people — 12 passengers and three crew members ...

But Convair still has a backlog of more than $1 billion in orders for its military planes and its pressurized Convair 340 transport. Last year it netted $10,400,000, close to its World War II peak ...

Still in service, the 340 is considered by some frequent flyers to be one of the noisiest commercial aircraft. Aviation enthusiast BuckeyeFanFlyer took to FlyerTalk to share this experience. “I flew ...

When Floyd B. Odium's Atlas Corp. bought control of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft in 1947, it looked as if Speculator Odium had made a mistake. That year Convair lost $32.4 million on its C-24O ...

DALLAS — Today, in 1951, the American-built, improved high-elevation performance 44-seat Convair CV-340 made its maiden flight.. The aircraft was a stretch of the popular CV-240, one of the most ...

AMMAN — The Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission (CARC) on Thursday said that 340 aircraft transited, landed in and departed from Jordan on Wednesday, marking a drop of 22 per cent from the normal ...