BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT CONVAIR 990 CORONADO
The Convair 990 Coronado is a narrow-body four-engined jet airliner produced by the Convair division of General Dynamics, a stretched version of their earlier Convair 880. The 990 began flight testing January 24, 1961. The 990A was developed by adding fairings to the engine nacelles, among other changes.
The Convair 990A is still the fastest non-supersonic commercial transport to have ever been produced. During May 1961, one of the pre-production 990 prototype aircraft set a record of .97 Mach in level flight at an altitude of 22 500 ft. (6.9 km), equivalent to a true airspeed of 675 mph (1 086 km/h).
The worst accident to Convair 990 happened on December 3, 1972, when Spantax Flight 275 crashed while taking off from Tenerife-Norte Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, killing all 155 people on board. The accident aircraft was a Convair CV-990-30A-5 Coronado. It had been in service since 1962.
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