Eastern Air Lines, and American Airlines — collectively requested Boeing to design the aircraft that would become the 727, ...

One hundred and nine persons were killed yesterday when an Eastern Airlines’ Boeing 727 jetliner carrying 115 passengers and eight crew members crashed and burned in an attempted landing in an ...

Boeing's 727 came about after the successful development ... This particular requirement was vital because Eastern Airlines (one of the many forgotten airlines that once soared the skies) had ...

That’s how Dan Futrell and Isaac Stoner — the 30-something Bostonians who scaled Bolivia’s Mount Illimani to search for the black box of an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 downed in 1985 ...

Twenty-nine years ago, Boeing’s 727 was its best-selling ... International, TWA and Eastern. Ron Ryan, retired owner and president of Ryan International Airlines, said at one time his former ...

You may be surprised to learn that six airlines still have Boeing 727 flights planned for April ... 1963 and entered service with US carrier Eastern Airlines in February 1964.

On the night of the ill-fated flight, the pilots of Eastern Airlines Flight 980 faced a cloudy night with thunderstorms in the area. Bolivian air traffic controllers cleared the Boeing 727 to ...

An original Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 aircraft at Miami International ... the 1960s until 1991 remembers walking down a Southwest Airlines jetway two years ago when he saw an Eastern lapel ...