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Delta Air Lines is a major airline in the United States headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. [1] It is the United States' oldest operating airline and the seventh-oldest operating worldwide . [ 7 ] Delta, along with its subsidiaries and regional affiliates, including Delta Connection , operates over 5,400 flights daily and serves 325 destinations ...
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 ...
November 10, 1946: Delta Air Lines Flight 10, a Douglas DC-3 which departed Jackson, Mississippi attempting to land at then Meridian Key Field (MEI) in a thunderstorm and winds, had a runway excursion after landing, going beyond the end of the runway and up the western slope of a ditch adjoining the highway adjacent to the airport, bouncing over a highway, and coming to rest with the nose ...
Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 N473DA, the Boeing 727 in the accident, at LaGuardia Airport in 1980 Accident Date August 31, 1988 (1988-08-31) Summary Crashed on takeoff following runway overrun Site Dallas/Fort Worth Int'l Airport, Euless, TX, United States 32°52′13″N 097°03′04″W / 32.87028°N 97.05111°W / 32.87028; -97.05111 Aircraft Aircraft type Boeing 727-232 Advanced ...
Woolman was a member of the board of directors for Delta Air Service, and again when Delta Air Corporation formed its board in 1930. [9] Delta secured an air mail contract and returned to airline operations in 1934. Doing business as Delta Air Lines over Mail Route 24, stretching from Ft. Worth, Texas, to Charleston, South Carolina.
Gerald Grinstein. 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.
Leo F. Mullin (born 1943) is an American executive and civic activist who was CEO and Chairman of Delta Air Lines (1997-2004). He led Delta during one of the most tumultuous periods in aviation history, beginning in 1997, just as airlines were struggling to emerge from the economic crises of the early 1990s.
Delta Air Lines Flight 841. N817E, the DC-8 involved in the hijacking, at Orlando International Airport in 1966. Delta Air Lines Flight 841 was an aircraft hijacking that took place beginning on July 31, 1972, on a flight originally from Detroit to Miami.