The Boeing 747-100 was the first variant of the Jumbo family. The variant is easy to recognize as the type was built with six upper deck windows (only three on each side). The upper deck was not ...

Since entering service in 1970, more than 1,500 Boeing 747s were built. For decades, if you were flying long-haul, you’d be flying a 747. The giant jumbo opened the world to passengers, democratizing ...

A wing panel that fell off a Boeing 747 freighter upon landing was discovered in a grass area next to the runway at London Heathrow Airport (LHR). After inquiries were made, it was discovered that the ...

An Emirates 747-400 freighter, operated by a partner airline, lands in Luqa, Malta, on Dec. 4, 2014. Emirates this week hired Compass Cargo Airlines in Bulgaria to operate two 747s on its behalf.

Emirates SkyCargo, the air freight division of Dubai-based Emirates, is adding two additional Boeing 747-400F freighters to its fleet to meet soaring demand. The additional pair of widebody freighters ...

AMSTERDAM, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Dutch airline KLM on Wednesday said it would scrap 250 office jobs in a push to cut costs and improve profitability. "It is crucial for our future to structurally ...

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Middle Eastern carrier Emirates’ SkyCargo division has taken its Boeing 747 freighter fleet to six, as the company continues to weigh its future cargo aircraft options. Emirates says it has ...

This was one of the main lessons of the worst disaster in aviation history—the 1977 Tenerife Airport Disaster in the Canary Islands where 583 people were killed when a KLM Boeing 747 collided ...

Indeed the deadliest aviation accident in history was the runway collision on March 27, 1977, between a departing KLM Boeing 747 and a taxiing Pan Am Boeing 747 in Tenerife. That collision took ...