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The Problem With The Boeing 727’s Rear Door
by Nicholas Cummins - July 14, 2020
The Boeing 727’s rear door, or otherwise described as the rear ventral airstair, could be opened mid-flight. Unlike other doors on the 727, there was no mechanical preventative stopping the rear door being opened while in flight and, say, a passenger jumping from the plane. This very scenario famously occurred with the D.B. Cooper Hijacking back in 1971.
The Rise & Fall Of The Boeing 727
The story of Boeing's narrowbody trijet.
Mark Finlay - 12 August 202
While we can thank the British for taking us into the jet age with their four-engine De Havilland Comet, Boeing firmly put its mark on jet travel when Pan American Airways introduced the Boeing 707 in 1958. The long-range jetliner can be credited with shrinking the world when it was deployed on transatlantic and transpacific routes. Yet, there remained a void in the marketplace for a jet aircraft for nearer-to-home travel.
Once the Boeing 707 program was up and running, the Seattle planemaker turned its attention to building an aircraft suitable for short to medium-range flights. The answer was a shrunken version of the 707 that could operate from shorter runways that they called the “Boeing 720”.