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unusual facts about Lockheed L-1011



1948 KLM Constellation air disaster

A KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation airliner (named Nijmegen and registered PH-TEN) crashed into high ground near Glasgow Prestwick Airport, Scotland, on 20 October 1948; all 40 aboard died.

Accidents and incidents at John F. Kennedy International Airport

;19 October: An Eastern Airlines flight from Idlewild International Airport (the former name of JFK) to San Juan, Puerto Rico, operated by Lockheed L-749A Constellation N119A crashed on take-off.

Air Foyle HeavyLift

In 1994 Air Foyle won a contract to operate one Lockheed L-100 Hercules and one Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft on permanent 24/7 standby for Oil Spill Response Ltd, to provide immediate response on a worldwide basis in the event of a major oil spillage.

Air France Flight 107

On 1 September 1953, an Air France Lockheed L-749 Constellation, registered in France as F-BAZZ, flying Flight 107, a scheduled flight from Paris to Saigon, crashed into the Tower Alps near Barcelonnette on the first stage of the flight, between Orly Airport and Nice Airport.

All for Nothing?

Most recently, All for Nothing? was nominated for a Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Film Festival in the Lifestyle Programs category for Episode 1011 "Mother & Daughter vs. Husband & Wife".

Anthony of Kiev

In circa 1011, the abbot gave Anthony the job of expanding monasticism in his native Kiev, which had only recently begun its conversion to Christianity.

Boniface of Tuscany

Boniface, Count of Bologna (died c. 1011), Count of Bologna and Margrave of Tuscany

Braniff Flight 352

Braniff International Airways Flight 352 was a scheduled domestic flight from William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas, United States to Dallas Love Field in Dallas; on May 3, 1968 a Lockheed L-188A Electra flying on the route, registration N9707C, broke up in mid air and crashed near Dawson, Texas after flying into a severe thunderstorm.

Canoas Air Force Base

28 July 1950: a Panair do Brasil Lockheed L-049 Constellation registration PP-PCG operating flight 99 from Rio de Janeiro-Galeão to Canoas Air Force Base struck power lines and crashed on a hill after an aborted landing and while holding in bad weather near São Leopoldo.

Clark Air Base

The 747 service was taken over by Tower Air sometime in the late 1980s, and was augmented with a weekly Hawaiian Airlines L-1011 or Douglas DC-8 to Guam-Honolulu-Los Angeles.

Conroy Turbo Three

The aircraft ended up parked at Groton-New London Airport in Groton, Connecticut where on February 19, 1984 its cockpit was hit by a wing from a Trans American Lockheed L-100 Hercules.

English alphabet

In the year 1011, a writer named Byrhtferð ordered the Old English alphabet for numerological purposes.

Essen Abbey

Its best years began in 973 under the Abbess Mathilde, granddaughter of Otto I and thus herself a Liudolfing, who governed the abbey until 1011.

EuroAtlantic Airways

The Lockheed L-1011 was formally owned by Air Zarco and was built in February 1983 and was obtained by EuroAtlantic in June 2000, but was stored in March 2010 in Amman.

Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

Already in medieval times the Chancellor had political power like Willigis of Mainz (Archchancellor 975–1011, regent for Otto III 991–994) or Rainald von Dassel (Chancellor 1156–1162 and 1166–1167) under Frederick I.

Flag of Austria

The origin of the Bindenschild has not been conclusively established, it possibly derived from the Styrian margraves of the Otakar noble family, who themselves may have adopted the colours from the descendants of the Carinthian duke Adalbero (ruled 1011–1035), a scion of the House of Eppenstein extinct in 1122.

Gregorian mission

Another medieval chronicler, Florence of Worcester, claimed that the priory was destroyed in 1011, and Eadmer himself had contradictory stories about the events of 1011, in one place claiming that the church was destroyed by fire and in another claiming only that it was looted.

Humanitarian response by for-profit organisations to the 2010 Haiti earthquake

First Air, along with the Belinda Stronach Foundation, has donated 2 Lockheed L-382 Hercules aircraft as well as a Boeing 767-200 'Super Freighter' to carry out rescue and relief missions.

Lake Tahoe Airport

Holiday Airlines Lockheed L-188 Electras served Lake Tahoe in the 1960s and early 1970's, followed by Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) and Air California (later AirCal) Electras.

LANSA Flight 508

LANSA Flight 508 was a Lockheed L-188A Electra turboprop, registered OB-R-941, operated as a scheduled domestic passenger flight by Lineas Aéreas Nacionales Sociedad Anonima (LANSA), that crashed in a thunderstorm en route from Lima, Peru to Pucallpa, Peru, on December 24, 1971, killing 91 people – all 6 of its crew and 85 of its 86 passengers.

Lockheed L-1249 Super Constellation

The aircraft were put into service with the Test Squadron of the 1700th Air Transport Group of the Military Air Transport Service, based at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas.

Lockheed L-1649 Starliner

ZS-DVJ (c/n 1042), currently in Trek Airways colours, is at OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg and is continuously threatened by the airport authorities to be scrapped if it isn't removed from the airport grounds.

Lockheed L-2000

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed the government to subsidizing 75% of the development of a commercial airliner to compete with the Anglo-French Concorde then under development.

Lockheed Orion

P-3 Orion (1959), a maritime patrol aircraft derived from the Lockheed L-188 Electra

Marcel Cerdan

The Lockheed L-749 Constellation crashed into Monte Redondo (São Miguel Island, Azores), killing all 11 crew members and 37 passengers on board, including Cerdan and the famous French violinist Ginette Neveu, while approaching the intermediate stop airport at Santa Maria.

Margaret Hogg

Peter was 19 years older than Margaret, and briefly achieved front-page news on 16 August 1974 when he landed at Luton Airport as the Captain of a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar of Court Line

MetroJazz Records

1011Rollins, Sonny/Teddy Edwards

Nordic European Airlines

In 1995 Nordic East acquired two Lockheed L-1011s from Cathay Pacific and with those, and a third aircraft added later, the charter work was expanded.

Sacramento Executive Airport

Aircraft included Martin 4-0-4s and Fairchild F-27s (on Pacific Air Lines), Lockheed L-188 Electras (on Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) and Western Airlines), Boeing 727-100s (on PSA and United Airlines) and Boeing 720Bs (on Western); Western had one B720B nonstop a day to LAX.

Sanganer

Last phase of this spectacular temple was completed in 10th century A.D., according to inscription of V.S. 1011 in one of the Toranas.

Silvio Pettirossi International Airport

16 June 1955: a Panair do Brasil Lockheed L-049/149 Constellation registration PP-PDJ operating flight 263 from São Paulo-Congonhas to Asunción hit a 12m tree while on final approach to land at Asunción.

Tachikawa air disaster

The 129-person death toll remained the highest-ever aviation fatality count, commercial or military, until 1960, when 134 died in the collision of a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation over New York City.

Take Over Control

They step out of the bus and perform a high-energy dance routine in a desert Aircraft Boneyard, Simons framed in an L-1011Rolls-Royce RB211 engine cowling.


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