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Delta Air Lines is one of the major airlines of the United States and a legacy carrier headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The United States' oldest operating airline and the seventh-oldest operating worldwide, Delta along with its subsidiaries and regional affiliates, including Delta Connection, operates over 5,400 flights daily and serves 325 destinations in 52 countries on six continents.
Survivors. 94. Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah. On August 31, 1988, the flight, using a Boeing 727-200 series aircraft, crashed during takeoff, resulting in 14 deaths and 76 injuries of the 108 on board. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Delta Air Lines Flight 1288 was a regularly scheduled flight from Pensacola, Florida to Atlanta, Georgia.On July 6, 1996, the aircraft serving the flight, a McDonnell Douglas MD-88, was on takeoff roll from Runway 17 at Pensacola when it experienced an uncontained, catastrophic turbine engine failure that caused debris from the front compressor hub of the left engine to penetrate the left aft ...
History Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport's air traffic control tower A line of automated and staffed ticketing counters for Delta, Atlanta's major tenant airline A hallway connecting Concourse B to Concourse A at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport Aerial view of Concourse C A view of the International Concourse E and control tower at night
Delta Air Lines is a major American airline. [1] [2] The company's history began with the world's first aerial crop dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters Inc., founded in 1925 in Macon, Georgia [3] to combat the boll weevil infestation of cotton crops. [4] C.E. Woolman, general manager and later Delta's first CEO, led a group of ...
Delta operates the world's largest fleets of the Airbus A220, Boeing 717, and Boeing 757, the largest passenger fleet of the Boeing 767, and the largest Airbus A330 fleet of any US airline. Delta has historically preferred purchasing or leasing used aircraft or using older-generation models to keep initial acquisition costs down.
Accident; Date: November 27, 1996 (): Summary: Controlled flight into terrain: Site: 14 km (8.7 mi) NNE of Abakan Airport citation needed]: Aircraft; Aircraft type: Ilyushin Il-76MD: Operator: Russian Air Force: Registration: RA-78804: Flight origin: Moscow Ramenskoye Airport, Moscow Oblast, Russia: Stopover: Abakan International Airport, Abakan, Russia: Destination: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky ...
The airline is updating the boarding process for flyers, getting rid of the boarding categories like "Diamond Medallions," "Delta Premium Select" and "Sky Priority." Instead, the categories will ...