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Boeing 707
The Boeing 707 is a four-engine commercial passenger jet airliner developed by Boeing in the early 1950s. Its name is most commonly pronounced as "Seven Oh Seven". Boeing delivered a total of 1,010 Boeing 707s, and also offered a smaller, faster model of the aircraft that was marketed as the Boeing...
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Korean Air Flight 858
Korean Air Flight 858 was a Boeing 707-3B5C en route from Saddam International Airport to Kimpo International Airport in 29 November 1987. Two North Korean agents left a bomb in the passenger cabin before departing the plane in a stopover at Abu...
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- 11
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- Nov 29, 1987
Fatalities:
- 115
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Passengers:
- 104
Dawson's Field hijackings
In the Dawson's Field hijackings (September 6, 1970) four jet aircraft bound for New York City were hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
While the majority of the 310 hostages were transferred to Amman and freed...
Flight origin:
- Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport ,
- Brussels Airport ,
- Zürich International Airport ,
- Ben Gurion International Airport
Crew:
- 9 ,
- 8 ,
- 17 ,
- 10
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Injuries:
- 1
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- 154 ,
- 153 ,
- 152 ,
- 148
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- Sep 9, 1970 ,
- Sep 6, 1970
Passengers:
- 145 ,
- 144 ,
- 138 ,
- 136
Avianca Flight 52
Avianca Flight 52 was a regularly scheduled flight from Bogotá to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport via Medellín, Colombia's José María Córdova International Airport. On Thursday, January 25, 1990, the aircraft performing this flight,...
Tail number:
- HK-2016
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Crew:
- 9
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Injuries:
- 85
Survivors:
- 85
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Date:
- Jan 25, 1990
Fatalities:
- 73
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Passengers:
- 149
Pan Am Flight 110
On December 17, 1973, Pan Am Flight 110 was scheduled to fly from Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport in Rome to Beirut International Airport in Lebanon and then on to Tehran, Iran. At the controls of the Boeing 707-321B (registration number...
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Crew:
- 10
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Injuries:
- 20
Survivors:
- 137
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Date:
- Dec 17, 1973
Fatalities:
- 30
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Passengers:
- 167
Korean Air Flight 902
Korean Air Lines Flight 902 (KAL902, KE902) was the flight number of a civilian airliner which was involved in a shooting incident April 20, 1978, near Murmansk, Russia, after it violated Soviet airspace and allegedly failed to respond to Soviet...
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- 12
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Survivors:
- 107
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Date:
- Apr 20, 1978
Fatalities:
- 2
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Passengers:
- 97
Pan Am Flight 214
Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707-121 registered as N709PA, was a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Baltimore to Philadelphia, which crashed on December 8, 1963 near Elkton, Maryland, after being hit by a lightning strike while in a holding...
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- 8
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- Dec 8, 1963
Fatalities:
- 81
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- 73
Continental Airlines Flight 11
Continental Airlines Flight 11, registration N70775, was a Boeing 707 aircraft which exploded close to Centerville, Iowa, while en route from O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois, to Kansas City, Missouri, on May 22, 1962. The aircraft crashed in a...
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- 8
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Date:
- May 22, 1962
Fatalities:
- 45
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Passengers:
- 37
Sabena Flight 548
Sabena Flight 548, registration OO-SJB, was a Boeing 707 aircraft en route from New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) to Brussels, Belgium's Zaventem Airport on February 15, 1961. The flight crashed...
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- 11
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- Feb 15, 1961
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- 61
American Airlines Flight 1
American Airlines Flight 1 was a domestic, scheduled passenger flight from Idlewild Airport, New York to Los Angeles, California that crashed shortly after take-off on 1 March 1962. All 87 passengers and 8 crew died in the crash. At the time, it was...
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Crew:
- 8
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Date:
- Mar 1, 1962
Fatalities:
- 95
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Passengers:
- 87
The Delta Force
The Delta Force is a 1986 action film starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin as leaders of an elite squad of Special Forces troops based on the real life U.S. Army Delta Force unit. It was directed by Menahem Golan and featured Martin Balsam, Joey...
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Crew:
- 10 ,
- 8
Survivors:
- 133 ,
- 157
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Date:
- Jul 19, 1985
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Passengers:
- 134 ,
- 145
PIA Flight 740
Pakistan International Airlines Flight PK740 was a Boeing 707-340C that crashed after takeoff from Jeddah International Airport on 26 November 1979. Flight PK740 departed Jeddah at 01:29 for a flight to Karachi. The aircraft was climbing to FL370 ...
Crew:
- 11
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Date:
- Nov 26, 1979
Fatalities:
- 156
Aircraft type:
Passengers:
- 145
Varig Flight 820
Varig Flight 820 was a scheduled airline service from Galeão Airport, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Orly Airport, Paris, France. On 11 July 1973, the Boeing 707 made an emergency landing in a field in the Orly commune due to smoke in the cabin. The fire...
Crew:
- 17
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Injuries:
- 11
Survivors:
- 11
Date:
- Jul 11, 1973
Fatalities:
- 123
Aircraft type:
Passengers:
- 117
BOAC flight 911
BOAC Flight 911 (Speedbird 911) was a round-the-world flight operated by British Overseas Airways Corporation. The Boeing 707-436, operating as flight 911 on March 5, 1966, was commanded by Captain Bernard Dobson, 45, from Dorset, an experienced 707...
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Crew:
- 11
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- Mar 5, 1966
Fatalities:
- 124
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Passengers:
- 113
TWA Flight 840
In August 1969, leaders in the Palestinian left-wing organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) learned that Yitzak Rabin, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States was scheduled to be aboard a Trans World Airlines (TWA)...
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Crew:
- 7
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Survivors:
- 127
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Date:
- Aug 29, 1969
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Passengers:
- 120
1977 IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash
The 1977 Dan-Air/IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash was a fatal accident involving a Boeing 707-321C cargo aircraft operated by Dan-Air Services Ltd. on behalf of IAS Cargo Airlines Ltd., which had been sub-contracted by Zambia Airways Corporation...
Crew:
- 5
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Date:
- May 14, 1977
Fatalities:
- 6
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Passengers:
- 1
Chateau de Sully
F-BHSM was the registration and callsign of a Boeing 707 named Chateau de Sully used by Air France for a charter flight, which crashed on June 3, 1962 while attempting to depart Paris's Orly Airport en route to Atlanta, Georgia via New York City's...
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Crew:
- 10
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Injuries:
- 2
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Date:
- Jun 3, 1962
Fatalities:
- 130
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Passengers:
- 122
PIA Flight 705
Pakistan International Airlines Flight PK 705 was a Boeing 720 – 040 B that crashed while descending to land on Runway 34 at Cairo International Airport on May 20, 1965 resulting in 119 fatalities.
Flight 705 departed Dhahran International Airport...
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Crew:
- 13
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Injuries:
- 6
Survivors:
- 6
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Date:
- May 20, 1965
Fatalities:
- 119
Aircraft type:
Passengers:
- 112
Middle East Airlines Flight 438
Middle East Airlines Flight 438 a Boeing 720B, callsign CEDAR JET 438, was en route from Beirut on January 1, 1976 when a bomb exploded in the forward cargo compartment. The aircraft broke up at an altitude of 11,300m (37,000 ft) and crashed 20 nm...
Crew:
- 15
Operator:
Date:
- Jan 1, 1976
Fatalities:
- 81
Aircraft type:
Passengers:
- 66
Continental Airlines Flight 12
Continental Airlines Flight 12, registration N70773, was a Boeing 707 aircraft en route from Los Angeles International Airport to Chicago O'Hare International Airport with an intermediate at Kansas City Downtown Airport on July 1, 1965. After a...
Crew:
- 6
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Date:
- Jul 1, 1965
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Passengers:
- 60
TWA Flight 841
On September 8, 1974, a Boeing 707-331B (tail number N8734) operating as TWA Flight 841 took off from Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv en route to JFK International Airport, New York City. It was scheduled to land in Athens, followed by...
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Crew:
- 8 ,
- 9
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Date:
- Sep 8, 1974
Fatalities:
- 88
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Passengers:
- 79
Air India Flight 101
Air India Flight 101 was a scheduled Air India passenger flight that crashed into Mont Blanc in France on the morning of 24 January 1966.
Air Flight 101 was a scheduled flight from Bombay to New York and was operated by Boeing 707 registered VT-DMN...
Flight origin:
Crew:
- 11
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Date:
- Jan 24, 1966
Fatalities:
- 117
Aircraft type:
Passengers:
- 106
Independent Air Flight 1851
In 1989, Independent Air Flight 1851 a Boeing 707-331B on an American charter flight from Bergamo, Italy to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, during an intended stopover approach to Santa Maria Airport in the Azores struck Pico Alto. The aircraft was...
Crew:
- 7
Operator:
Date:
- Feb 8, 1989
Fatalities:
- 144
Aircraft type:
Passengers:
- 137
BOAC Flight 712
BOAC Flight 712 (callsign Speedbird 712) for 8 April 1968 was a Boeing 707-465 from London Heathrow bound for Sydney via Zürich Kloten and Singapore, which suffered an engine failure at takeoff that quickly led to a major fire that killed five of...
Crew:
- 11
Operator:
Injuries:
- 38
Survivors:
- 122 ,
- 22
Date:
- Apr 9, 1968 ,
- Apr 8, 1968
Fatalities:
- 5
Aircraft type:
Passengers:
- 116
Varig Flight 797
Varig Flight 797 was a flight from Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire's to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On 3 January 1987 the Boeing 707-379C used for the route crashed on the terrain, killing all 12 crew members and 38 of 39 passengers.
When departing Abidjan the...
Flight origin:
Crew:
- 12
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Survivors:
- 1
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Date:
- Jan 3, 1987
Fatalities:
- 50
Aircraft type:
Passengers:
- 39
Air India Flight 403
Air India Flight 403 was a scheduled Air India passenger flight that crashed Sahar International Airport in Bombay, India on the 21 June 1982.
On 21 June 1982 Air India Flight 403, a Boeing 707-420 (registered VT-DJJ) called Gouri Shankar coming...
Flight origin:
Crew:
- 12
Operator:
Survivors:
- 94
Flight destination:
Date:
- Jun 21, 1982
Fatalities:
- 17
Aircraft type:
Passengers:
- 99
Air France Flight 117
The Air France flight 117 was a multi-leg international scheduled flight from Paris-Orly Airport via Lisbon,The Azores and Guadeloupe to Santiago, Chile. The plane - Boeing 707 was a brand new aircraft - 4 months old.
The flight was uneventful until...
Flight origin:
Crew:
- 10
Operator:
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Date:
- Jun 22, 1962
Fatalities:
- 113
Aircraft type:
Passengers:
- 103
