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Kenya Airways Flight 507. / 3.9557; 9.7509. Kenya Airways Flight 507 was a scheduled Abidjan – Douala – Nairobi passenger service, operated by Kenya Airways. On 5 May 2007, the Boeing 737–800 aircraft serving the flight crashed in the initial stage of its second leg, immediately after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Cameroon.
The aircraft involved was a Boeing 737-8AS, registration ET-ANB, s/n 29935. [1] [6] It had its maiden flight on 18 January 2002, and was delivered new to Ryanair on 4 February 2002 as EI-CSW. [7] Stored in April 2009 ( 2009-04 ) , Ethiopian Airlines took delivery of the aircraft on 12 September 2009, leased from CIT Group .
After two fatal Boeing 737 Max 9 crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people, a panel was directed by Congress to review Boeing’s safety management processes.
In 2019, Airbus displaced Boeing as the largest aerospace company by revenue due to the Boeing 737 MAX groundings, pulling in revenues of US$78.9 billion and US$76 billion respectively. Boeing recorded $2 billion in operating losses, down from $12 billion profits the previous year, while Airbus profits dropped from $6 billion to $1.5 billion.
USAir Flight 427. / 40.60393; -80.31026. USAir Flight 427 was a scheduled flight from Chicago 's O'Hare International Airport to Palm Beach International Airport, Florida, with a stopover at Pittsburgh International Airport. On Thursday, September 8, 1994, the Boeing 737 flying this route crashed in Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania while ...
Flash Airlines Flight 604 was a charter flight from Sharm El Sheikh International Airport in Egypt to Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris, France, with a stop-over at Cairo International Airport, provided by Egyptian private charter company Flash Airlines. On 3 January 2004, the Boeing 737-300 that was operating the route crashed ...
Survivors. 126. Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 (also known as the Poldercrash [6] or the Schiphol Polderbaan incident) was a passenger flight that crashed during landing at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, the Netherlands, on 25 February 2009, resulting in the deaths of nine passengers and crew, including all three pilots.
A prior round of trouble for Boeing began in 2018 and 2019 with two crashes of Max-8 jets operated by Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines. Dozens of lawsuits followed.