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Boeing just announced the definitive end of the legendary 747 as cargo giant Atlas Air places an order for the final 4 planes
Boeing just announced the definitive end of the legendary 747 as cargo giant Atlas Air places an order for the final 4 planes
Thomas PalliniJan 13, 2021, 04:17 IST
An Atlas Air Boeing 747-8F.Thomas Frey/picture alliance/Getty
Atlas Air on Tuesday announced a four-aircraft order for the
Boeing 747-8F, the largest mass-produced freighter from the American aircraft manufacturer.
Boeing said that these will be the last 747 ever built as the program comes to a close after a half-century.
Demand for cargo
Aviation-incident data from the Aviation Safety Network showed that Sriwijaya Air has had four other mishaps with the Boeing 737 since 2008, resulting in one death and a total loss of each plane. The airline was only recently removed from the European Union s list of banned air carriers, a designation typically given to airlines believed by the group of countries to be unsafe, in 2018 after an 11-year tenure that began in June 2007.
Though all incidents involve the Boeing 737, the aircraft isn t inherently dangerous (recent troubles with 737 Max notwithstanding). The Dash 500 variant that crashed on Saturday had had a good safety record since its introduction in 1987.
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The Indonesian airline that just suffered another Boeing 737 crash has a history of 4 accidents in the last 9 years - all with the same plane
The Indonesian airline that just suffered another Boeing 737 crash has a history of 4 accidents in the last 9 years - all with the same plane
Thomas PalliniJan 13, 2021, 01:17 IST
A Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-300.CLARA PRIMA/AFP
Indonesian carrier
Sriwijaya Air has a track record of incidents with the Boeing 737, mostly from pilot error and aircraft overshooting the runway on landing.
Saturday s incident is the airline s fifth incident with the Boeing 737 since 2008 and the only one in which passengers lost their lives.