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Northwest Airlines (often abbreviated as NWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1926 until it merged with Delta Air Lines in 2010. [1] The merger made Delta the largest airline in the world until the American Airlines–US Airways merger in 2013.
On December 20, 1972, North Central Airlines Flight 575 and Delta Air Lines Flight 954 collided on a runway at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Ten people died – all on the North Central aircraft – and 17 were injured in the accident.
On November 27, 1973, Delta Air Lines Flight 516, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, crashed short of the runway in severe weather on approach to the airport from Atlanta's Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport. The airliner burst into flames that were quickly extinguished in part by torrential rains and deep standing water where the aircraft ended up.
Horizon Air is an American regional airline headquartered in SeaTac, Washington, within the Seattle metropolitan area.It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Alaska Air Group and it is paid by fellow group member Alaska Airlines to staff, operate and maintain aircraft used on flights that are scheduled, marketed and sold by Alaska Airlines.
N802E was a Douglas DC-8-51.It was purchased by Delta Air Lines on September 14, 1959 and had since then accumulated a total of 23,391 flight hours. The aircraft was originally manufactured as a DC-8-11 with four Pratt & Whitney JT3C turbojets, and later modified to a model 51 with JT3D turbofan engines. [2]
Gerald ("Jerry") Grinstein (born 1932) is an American businessman, the former chief executive officer (CEO) of Delta Air Lines. He was CEO of Burlington Northern Railroad from 1985 to 1995, and joined Delta's board of directors in 1987. He became CEO of Delta in 2004, a time of financial crisis for the airline.
Doing business as Delta Air Lines over Mail Route 24, stretching from Ft. Worth, Texas, to Charleston, South Carolina. The company name officially changed to Delta Air Lines in 1945. Although Delta Air Lines kept a crop-dusting division until 1966, by 1938 expanding airmail and passenger service operations began earning more than crop-dusting ...
Delta Air Lines retired fleet; Aircraft Total Introduced Retired Replacement Notes Airbus A310-200 [56] [57] 9 1991 1995 Boeing 767-300ER [58] Airbus A310-300: 23 1996 Boeing 727-100: 8 1972 1977 Boeing 727-200: Former Northeast Airlines fleet. [59] Boeing 727-200: 183 2003 Boeing 737-800 Boeing 757-200 McDonnell Douglas MD-90: One crashed as ...