The Boeing 747, has passed into aviation history. It took its final commercial flight on Seoul-to-Detroit route
The first Boeing 747 is rolled out of the Boeing company's plant in the State of Washington in September 1968.
Boeing 747, the favourite of American presidents and key to affordable mass market air travel in the US, passed into aviation history this week. Nearly 50 years after the its debut, the 747 took its final commercial flight.
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Irish naval authorities bring ashore debris from an Air India Boeing 747, 28 June 1985 in Cork. The aircraft crashed 23 June with some 329 people on board. Two Sikh men were arrested in Vancouver, British Columbia 27 October 2000 and charged with killing 329 people aboard the Air India flight that took off from Canada and exploded off the coast of Ireland.
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