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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 ...
Fleet overview. Delta operates the 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. [7][8][9][10] Alongside United Airlines, it is one of only two airlines operating the Boeing 767-400ER. Delta primarily uses narrow-body aircraft ...
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 ...
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.
Passenger operations ceased in October 1930 when the air mail contract for the route Delta had pioneered was awarded to another airline, which purchased the assets of Delta Air Service. Local banker Travis Oliver, acting as trustee, C.E. Woolman and other local investors purchased back the crop-dusting assets of Delta Air Service and ...