BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT BOEING 777
The Boeing 777 is a long-range wide-body twin-engine jet airliner. It is the world's largest twinjet. As Boeing's first fly-by-wire airliner, it has computer-mediated controls. The 777 was designed to replace older wide-body airliners and bridge the capacity difference between Boeing's 767 and 747. It was also the first commercial aircraft to be designed entirely with computer-aided design. The 777 is produced in two fuselage lengths. The original 777-200 variant entered commercial service in 1995, followed by the extended-range 777-200ER in 1997. The stretched 777-300 followed in 1998. The extended-range 777-300ER and ultra long-range 777-200LR variants entered service in 2004 and 2006 respectively, while the 777F, a freighter version, debuted in February 2009. The 777-200LR is one of the world's longest-range airliners, and holds the record for the longest distance flown non-stop by a commercial aircraft.
The first flight took place on June 12, 1994, and the first 777 was delivered to United Airlines on May 15, 1995. The first commercial flight took place on June 7, 1995, from London Heathrow Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport.
The worst accident to Boeing 777 happened on July 17, 2014, when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down while flying over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. The airliner was downed by a surface-to-air missile, launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory in Ukraine. Flight 17 was operated with a Boeing 777-2H6ER, which was delivered new to Malaysia Airlines on July 29, 1997. The crash was Malaysia Airlines' second aircraft loss during 2014, after the disappearance of Flight 370 on March 8, 2014. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia to its destination, Beijing Capital International Airport, China. Flight 370 was operated with a Boeing 777-2H6ER, which was delivered new to Malaysia Airlines on May 31, 2002. There were 239 people on board. The search for the missing airplane focused initially on the South China and Andaman seas, before analysis of the aircraft's automated communications with an Inmarsat satellite identified a possible crash site somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean. Several pieces of marine debris confirmed to be from the aircraft, washed ashore in the western Indian Ocean during 2015 and 2016. After a three-year search across 120 000 square kilometres of ocean failed to locate the aircraft, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre heading the operation, suspended their activities in January 2017. A second search launched in January 2018 by the private contractor Ocean Infinity, also ended without success after six months. The disappearance of Flight 370 has been dubbed one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time.
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