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13 unusual facts about Boeing 737


Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia

They began operations in 1989, with the G.B. Church project, and have since sunk 7 ships and 1 Boeing 737.

Bundaberg Airport

The Bundaberg Regional Council conducted major works on the runway, terminal, carpark and navigation aids in 2009-10 in an attempt to attract services using A320/737 type aircraft.

Fort MacKay/Albian Aerodrome

The runway routinely handles Boeing 737 flights bringing in contract workers to construct Jackpine Mine, in addition to a daily Shell Dornier commuter aircraft from Edmonton and Calgary.

Gondia

The AAI has extended the runway at Gondia airport to 7,500 feet to handle the operations of aircraft like Airbus A-320 and Boeing 737.

Hana Yori Dango Final

When the movie was released in theaters, Mao Inoue and the cast of F4 flew in a Boeing 737-500 to visit Sapporo, Nagoya and Fukuoka on July 12, 2008 and Osaka and Tokyo on July 13, 2008 to meet with fans.

Indian Airlines Flight 113

Indian Airlines Flight 113 was a Boeing 737 flight operating from Mumbai to Ahmedabad that crashed on its final approach to Ahmedabad airport on 19 October 1988, killing 133 of the 135 people on board.

Indian Airlines Flight 427

Commandos from India's National Security Guard (NSG) rescued all 141 passengers and crew of the Indian Airlines Boeing 737, on the ground at Amritsar airport.

Jaled el Masri

The Boeing 737 airliner that transported Jaled el Masri and the CIA team landed in La Palma, Majorca, a Spanish Island in the Mediterranean.

Niš Constantine the Great Airport

A gala opening ceremony was held on 12 October 1986 accompanied by the airfare and the landing of the first Boeing 737.

Skiathos Island National Airport

Aircraft such as the Airbus A320, Airbus A321 and Boeing 737 typically stop at Thessaloniki International Airport to refuel.

Transport in Madeira

In the late 20th century Funchal airport (which became operative in July 1964) was dreaded among airliner pilots for its runway, which was not only short (the largest planes that could be accommodated were the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737) but was also built on a high embankment which fell away abruptly towards the sea.

Turkish Airlines Flight 278

Turkish Airlines Flight 278, operated by a Boeing 737-4Y0 registered TC-JES and named Mersin, was a domestic scheduled flight from Ankara Esenboğa Airport to Van Ferit Melen Airport in eastern Turkey that crashed on 29 December 1994 during its final approach to land in driving snow.

Willenhall, Coventry

The aircraft was a Boeing 737 that was owned and operated by Air Algerie but leased by Phoenix Aviation to undertake a number of live veal calf export flights from the airport.


2005 Logan Airport runway incursion

US1170 was a Boeing 737-300 aircraft owned and operated by US Airways, destined for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and carrying 6 crew members and 103 passengers.

2009 imprisonment of American journalists by North Korea

After being released from custody by the North Koreans, Lee and Ling were flown back to Los Angeles with Clinton and his delegation in a Boeing 737 owned by Hollywood producer and Clinton friend Steve Bing's company Shangri-La Entertainment.

Air Adriatic

Air Adriatic announced plans for 2007 to launch schedule services from Zagreb to Berlin, Düsseldorf, Malmö, Moscow, Pristina, Skopje and Zürich and to replace its McDonnell Douglas MD-82s with Boeing 737-700 aircraft.

Aloha Airlines Flight 243

--Use the American date format--> a Boeing 737-297 serving the flight suffered extensive damage after an explosive decompression in flight, but was able to land safely at Kahului Airport on Maui.

Alyemda

On 27 August 1993, an Alyemda Boeing 737-200 was hijacked during a scheduled domestic flight from Al Mukalla to Al Ghaydah by an armed person who demanded to be taken to either Kuwait or Oman.

Baucau District

Baucau has the country's longest airport runway, in Cakung Airport, as currently, Dili's Nicolau Lobato International Airport can only serve small airliners like the Boeing 737.

Boliviana de Aviación

It recently incorporated a Boeing 737-300 to its fleet and also plans to open new routes for 2011 which include Caracas, Havana, Lima and Santiago.

Cameroon Airlines Flight 786

Cameroon Airlines Flight 786 was a Boeing 737-2H7C, registration TJ-CBD, operating as a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Douala Airport, Cameroon (ICAO: FKKD), to Garoua via Yaoundé.

Delta Express

Delta Express promoted the Cartoon Network animated television series The Powerpuff Girls by having a Boeing 737-200 jet painted with a special livery featuring the characters Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup on the exterior.

Durban International Airport

On 18 June 2008, a British Airways Boeing 737-400 (operated by Comair), operating as Flight 6203 from Johannesburg, skidded off the runway at Durban International Airport while landing under adverse weather conditions.

ETOPS

Aloha Airlines operated 180 minute ETOPS approved Boeing 737-700 aircraft on nonstop routes between the Hawaiian Islands and the western U.S. and also Vancouver, Canada.

JetKonnect

The airlines was established on 20 September 1991 and began operations on 3 December 1993 with two Boeing 737-200 aircraft as Sahara Airlines, as part of the major Sahara India Pariwar business conglomerate.

Kegworth air disaster

The Kegworth air disaster occurred on 8 January 1989 when British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737–400, crashed onto the embankment of the M1 motorway near Kegworth, Leicestershire, UK.

Low-cost carrier

On September 9, 2011, EasySky started operations in Honduras, using the low cost model, serving continental City of La Ceiba and the island of Roatán in the Western Caribbean using a Boeing 737-200.

MV Senopati Nusantara

Adam Air Flight 574, a Boeing 737 aircraft which crashed on January 1, 2007, in the same storm.

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710 was a Boeing 737-200 flight from Sacramento, California to Los Angeles that was hijacked by Dimitr Alexiev and Michael Azmanoff, two Bulgarian immigrants, on July 5, 1972 shortly after take-off from Sacramento Airport.

Resolute Bay Airport

On August 20, 2011, First Air Flight 6560, a Boeing 737-200 charter flight transporting fifteen (15) people from Yellowknife, crashed near the airport.

Schabak Modell

Aircraft manufacturers in the Schabak line are the old Junkers JU52, Concorde, Vickers Viscount, Ilyushin IL 86 and 96, Tupolev 154, McDonnell-Douglas DC-9 and MD-11, Boeing 737, 747 (including Air Force One), 747 short fuselage, 747-400, 767, 777, 787, Airbus A300, A310, A319, A320, A321, A330, A340 and also the A380.

Shane Lundgren

In 1982, at 21 years of age, he was checked out in the Boeing 737 by Air Berlin USA, founded by father Kim Lundgren in Berlin, Germany.

Steamboat Springs Airport

This airfield can handle jetliners such as the Boeing 737 and 757 as well as the Airbus A319 and A320, and has mainline jet flights during ski season as well as year-round regional jet and turboprop flights on United Express to Denver.

Thomsonfly

Scheduled operations began on 31 March 2004 with four Boeing 737-500 aircraft, from a new passenger terminal at Coventry Airport.

Turkish Airlines Flight 5904

Turkish Airlines Flight 5904 was a Boeing 737-4Q8 operated by the Turkish Airlines, registered TC-JEP and named Trakya, on a repositioning flight that crashed on 7 April 1999 in Ceyhan, Adana Province in southern Turkey.

Ulrich Wegener

Wegener was the GSG 9 commander at the liberation of the hostages of the PFLP on the Boeing 737 Landshut, operated by Lufthansa as flight 181, in Mogadishu, Somalia, in the night from the 17th to the 18th October 1977.

Vision Airlines

The airline also operates charter flights for their tour division of the Grand Canyon, Marble Canyon, Hoover Dam, and Monument Valley out of North Las Vegas Airport utilizing Boeing 737 and Dornier 328 aircraft.

Xtra Airways

Casino Express Airlines operated one (1) Boeing 737-200 jetliner for new start-up airline Tahoe Air which provided scheduled passenger air service from the South Lake Tahoe Airport (TVL) nonstop to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in southern California and also nonstop to San Jose International Airport (SJC) in northern California.