BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT BOEING 727
The Boeing 727 is a midsized, narrow-body three-engined jet aircraft. It has three Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines below the T-tail, one on each side of the rear fuselage with a center engine that connects through an S-duct to an inlet at the base of the fin. The 727 is the only Boeing trijet, as a commercial design entering production.
The 727-100 first flew in February 1963, and entered service with Eastern Air Lines in February 1964. The stretched 727-200 first flew in July 1967, and entered service with Northeast Airlines that December.
The worst accident to Boeing 727 happened on March 31, 1986, when Mexicana Flight 940 crashed into El Carbón, a mountain in the rugged Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range northwest of Mexico City, killing all 167 people on board. The crash remains the deadliest airline disaster in Mexican history, and is the world's deadliest air disaster involving the Boeing 727.
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