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...blew 115 miles from Anchorage.Following that eruption, several aircraft experienced damage from ash - including a Boeing 747-400 carrying 231 passengers that lost all four engines after flying into an ash cloud. The plane dropped more than...
ANCHORAGE - A Boeing 747 en route from Minneapolis to Tokyo was diverted to Anchorage on Thursday and searched by bomb-sniffing dogs after an unruly passenger...
...air traffic controller as a giant Boeing 747 that had just landed headed into...air traffic controller as a giant Boeing 747 that had just landed headed into...air traffic controller as a giant Boeing 747 that had just landed headed into...
WASHINGTON (AP) - ``Stop!'' shouted the frightened air traffic controller as a giant Boeing 747 that had just landed headed into the path of another jumbo jet preparing to take off from the Chicago runway. Tragedy was avoided...
...with the first scheduled landing in Fairbanks set for Aug. 22. Airport officials say all charters are operated on Boeing 747-400 wide-body airplanes, which can seat 356 passengers.
...massive and majestic trumpeter swan. Sound off on the important issues at That's not to say these ivory-colored Boeing 747's of the avian world will be staying put in their summer locations. On the contrary, trumpeters will soon be on the...
...disaster relief equipment. The strategic airlift transport aircraft has a 290-foot wingspan and a length of 276 feet. A Boeing 747-400 has a wingspan of 212 feet and length of 232-feet.
...challenge. Last year, the focus was on the tail of a business jet. This year the challenge will involve the wing of a Boeing 747. The project involves examining how to look for fuel efficiencies, examine the internal structure and other considerations...
...California Supreme Court struck down the state's death penalty. In 1977, the space shuttle Enterprise, sitting atop a Boeing 747, went on its maiden flight above the Mojave Desert. In 1994, President Clinton notified Congress he was prepared to...
...the FBI officially pulled out of the probe into the TWA Flight 800 disaster, saying the explosion that destroyed the Boeing 747, killing all 230 people aboard, was not caused by a criminal act. First Union Corp. announced the purchase of CoreStates...