The Boeing 707 caught fire following a rejected take off on runway 25 at Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport, Rome at 13:09 GMT [1] on a flight to Athens International Airport, Greece on November 23, 1964, killing 49 of the 74 people on board.

The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype first flown in 1954, the initial 707-120 first flew on December 20, 1957.

Oct 21, 2023 · TWA was the second-largest customer of the type. It flew 128 units, including 41 707-320Bs and 18 707-320Cs. The Boeing 707 was a revolutionary aircraft because it propelled the aviation industry into the jet age, where jet aircraft replaced turboprop aircraft, and longer routes became achievable.

TWA flight 800, a Boeing 707-300, crashed during takeoff from Roma-Fiumicino Airport, Italy, killing 50 occupants; 23 survived the accident. The Boeing 707 started its takeoff run on runway 25 at 14:05.

Aug 17, 2022 · One of the first large, long range, intercontinental jet airliners to come on the scene in the late 1950s and early 60s was the Boeing 707. For TWA’s most senior pilots, moving from pistons to jets was the biggest transition since the change from visual to …

Mar 19, 2025 · Boeing 707, the first successful commercial passenger jetliner. The mid- to long-range narrow-body four-engine aircraft with a swept-wing design was developed and manufactured by the Boeing Company and was credited with inaugurating the jet age in commercial travel.

Trans World Airlines Flight 5787 was an unscheduled training flight of a Boeing 707 from Atlantic City Airport in Pomona, New Jersey in 1969. The flight was planned as a proficiency check, testing crew response to a simulated single-engine failure during takeoff and landing.

May 31, 2016 · TWA’s first 707 measured 145 feet long with a wingspan of 130 feet and weighed 250,000 pounds at takeoff. It used about 1,000 to 2,000 feet more runway for takeoff and landing than its DC-7 or Constellation predecessors, depending on …

Dec 22, 2015 · Improved fan-jet engines made the 707 Intercontinental a superstar jetliner, giving Boeing a leg-up on rival Douglas for the very first time. The second U.S. flag airline to fly the 707-300 was TWA, which hatched a brilliant marketing scheme calling their prized new 707-331B fanjets the “StarStream” Intercontinental.

TWA Flight 159 (New York - Cincinnati - Los Angeles) departed the ramp at Cincinnati at 18:33. As the Boeing 707 was taxiing to runway 27L, Delta Airlines DC-9 N3317L (flight DL379) was landing.