Nepal Airlines said the animals were slaughtered in front of the plane — a Boeing 757 — at Kathmandu airport.
At that time, the destination runway 28 was occupied by a Boeing 757, cleared to take-off.
The first landing of a commercial aircraft was made by an Air China Boeing 757 without passengers on July 12, 2006.
The B757-200s, however, are usually able to carry sufficient fuel to operate directly to British destinations, such as London Gatwick.
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Due to its payload/range capability and favourable runway requirements Atlantic Star Airlines plans to acquire a used Boeing 757-200 with retrofitted winglets which will be specially adapted to carry fewer passengers and more fuel for the long haul flights.
On 6 February 1996, the Boeing 757-225 operating the route crashed shortly after take-off from Puerto Plata's Gregorio Luperón International Airport.
An example of such a landing occurred on April 29, 2007, at Manchester Airport in the United Kingdom, when a bird got sucked into the right engine of a Thomsonfly Boeing 757 just as it rotated off the runway.
Delta operates the largest fleets of the Boeing 757, the Boeing 767, and the McDonnell Douglas MD-90 of any operators worldwide.
The Boeing 757-200 chartered by a French Non-Governmental Organization called Zoé's Ark was impounded in Chad in October 2007 and the crew arrested due to accusations of human trafficking of minors for flying children out of the country with no national authorities authorization.
On 6 February 2010 at 04:48, a Ghana International Airlines Boeing 757 flying from Accra, Ghana to London Gatwick, United Kingdom with 125 passengers and 8 crew made a precautionary landing at Moufdi Zakaria Airport following indications of possible irregularities with the hydraulics system.
2002 Überlingen mid-air collision: On 1 July 2002, a Tupolev Tu-154 of the Russian BAL Bashkirian Airlines (Republic of Bashkortostan) and a Boeing 757 of DHL Express collided at a height of 12,000 meters in southern German airspace over Überlingen on Lake Constance, controlled by skyguide.
North American Airlines Boeing 757-200s were chartered to transport American soldiers from Guam to Zamboanga.