and yet Pan Am is tied in 11th place for the most Boeing 747s ordered (with KLM and All Nippon Airways). Pan Am ordered the early 100, 200F, and SP variants of the aircraft. Looking back on the ...

As fate would have it, Clipper Victor was later involved in the world's worst aviation accident. On 27 March 1977, it collided with another Boeing 747 (KLM 747) at Tenerife in the Canary Islands. 583 ...

The plane he was flying was a seven-year-old Boeing 747, named the Helderberg, of the type called a Combi. SAA operated two of these aircraft in its fleet in the 1980s. The idea behind the design was ...

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