Boeing 747

Events

• 

  17 July 1996

  TWA Flight 800

  • Boeing 747
  • 230 people who died

  TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747-131 bound from New York to Paris, broke apart off Long Island on 17 July 1996, about 12 minutes after takeoff, when fuel vapour in its nearly empty centre wing tank exploded.

  2 videos

  • FDFinal Descent
  • MPMentour Pilot
• 

  21 December 1988

  Pan Am Flight 103

  • Boeing 747
  • 270 people who died

  Pan Am Flight 103, a Boeing 747 flying from London Heathrow to New York, was destroyed by a bomb in its forward cargo hold over Lockerbie, Scotland, on 21 December 1988.

  2 videos

  • OTOn The Move
  • VVornik
• 

  12 August 1985

  Japan Air Lines Flight 123

  • Boeing 747
  • 520 people who died

  Japan Air Lines Flight 123 left Tokyo's Haneda Airport for Osaka on the evening of 12 August 1985, at the start of the Obon holiday, with 509 passengers and 15 crew.

  3 videos

  • DBDisaster Breakdown
  • SCSmithsonian Channel Aviation Nation
  • FHFascinating Horror
• 

  9 August 1978

  Olympic Airways Flight 411

  • Boeing 747
  • 418 people on board

  An engine failed as Olympic Airways Flight 411, a fully loaded Boeing 747 bound for New York, lifted off from Athens on 9 August 1978, and the jet barely climbed as it crossed the city at rooftop height.

  1 video

  • GDGreen Dot Aviation
• 

  27 March 1977

  Tenerife airport disaster

  • Boeing 747
  • 583 people who died

  Two Boeing 747s, KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736, collided in fog on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife on 27 March 1977, after both had been diverted there by a bomb at Las Palmas.

  2 videos

  • PPPilot Pulse
  • MAMayday: Air Disaster