However, as the single-aisle jet, a derivative of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80, was flying southward, the aircraft began ...

As an aircraft type reaches the end of its service life, examples of it flying commercially become rarer and rarer (the ...

But until recently, I'd never set foot on a Boeing 717, a smaller aircraft that Boeing inherited when it bought McDonnell Douglas in 1995 for $13 billion. I tend to like really small jets ...