The wide body, four-engine Boeing 747-400 is an iconic part of British Airways’ fleet. BA, which was the world’s largest operator of the Boeing 747, described the 747-400 as ‘a proven performer with high reliability’ which boasts high reliability and has incorporated major aerodynamic improvements over earlier 747 models, which have a history stretching back 50 … Read more
Boeing ‘hid design flaws’ in 737 Max jet that led to two deadly crashes with a loss of 346 lives By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 16 September 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 16 September 2020 Two deadly Boeing 737 Max crashes were the ‘horrific culmination’ of engineering, mismanagement and oversight … Read more
Two Boeing plane crashes that killed 346 people in five months were the ‘horrific culmination’ of design flaws, poor government oversight and a lack of action by the planemaker, US investigators have said. Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration were both criticized in a scathing report by the House Transportation Committee after the crashes in … Read more
Mother goes for a walk on Boeing 737’s WING to ‘get some air’ because she was ‘too hot’ while waiting to disembark in Ukraine A woman climbed onto the wing of a plane when landing in Kyiv from Antalya Videos show the women stalling on the wing before climbing back in the cabin The mother-of-two was banned from … Read more
These jaw-dropping aerial and internal shots show a top-secret Soviet military craft bigger than a jumbo jet lying abandoned on a beach where it will be converted into a museum. The futuristic-looking MD-160 Lun-class ekranoplan was towed by tug across the Caspian Sea last month as part of a 14-hour journey from Kaspiysk naval base to Derbent, … Read more
Boeing will build far fewer planes and end production of its 747 jumbo jets after coronavirus hammers its finances By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:26 BST, 29 July 2020 | Updated: 22:26 BST, 29 July 2020 Boeing will build far fewer planes and end the production of its 747 jumbo jets after … Read more
Terrifying moment huge flames rip through a Boeing 777 as it parks on the tarmac of a Chinese airport Shocking footage shows the burning aircraft covered in blaze and black smoke The Ethiopian Airlines cargo plane caught the fire today at an airport in Shanghai No injuries or deaths have been reported by authorities as the time … Read more
The wings of a Boeing 747 span a greater distance than the Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903. It’s such a colossus that the American factory in Everett, Washington, where the planes have been manufactured since 1969, is the largest building by volume in the world at 13 million cubic metres. Fittingly, clouds have been … Read more
The Boeing 747, the original jumbo jet that was the favorite American presidents and key to affordable mass market air travel in the United States, has passed into aviation history. Nearly 50 years after the its debut, the 747 took its final commercial flight with an American carrier on Delta Air Lines. It ‘made flying … Read more
Boeing is set to begin a week of flight safety tests in a bid to get its 737 Max back into the skies, after the plane was grounded following two fatal crashes. The best-selling aircraft was grounded around 15 months ago after two fatal crashes killed 346 people. Now, the Boeing 737 Max is set to … Read more