Boeing 747 Jet

As Air India's iconic jet Boeing 747 departed for the US, many aviation enthusiasts took to social media to bid farewell to the gigantic aircraft. One post included that of a pilot who had flown the iconic jet himself.

One of Air India's Boeing 747s, which once ferried VVIPs like Prime Ministers, Presidents and Vice-Presidents, flew out of Mumbai's international airport on Monday, marking the end of an era for the iconic jet used for long-haul international flights

The existing fleet of planes are expected to fly for decades more, but in ceasing 747 production more than 50 years after aircraft's first flight, Boeing is closing a chapter in the history of civil aviation.

An article said said that the Boeing 747 was at 35,000 feet while the 737 at 37,000 feet.

Qantas Airways Ltd's last Boeing 747 jet drew a kangaroo tail in the sky off the Australian coast as it began its final flight to retirement in the Mojave Desert on Wednesday, ending the model's almost half a century of service at the carrier.

A specially-prepped Air India flight took off from Delhi this afternoon to evacuate around 400 Indians stranded in China's Wuhan since the start of the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The national carrier ferried in a Boeing 747 jumbo jet from its Mumbai hub for this purpose. The plane, which is carrying special medical kits put together by the Health...

A Boeing 747 cargo jet went off the runway at the Halifax airport in eastern Canada early Wednesday morning, causing minor injuries to the four-member crew and forcing the temporary closure of the airfield.

National carrier Air India is set to fly its 423-seater, double-decker Boeing 747 aircraft to two key domestic destinations, Mumbai and Kolkata, starting October 16 to meet the demand during the festive season.

The Boeing 747, the original jumbo jet that was the favorite American presidents and key to affordable mass market air travel in the United States, will pass into aviation history this week.

The sky seems to be the limit for Chinese online shopping portal Taobao, which auctioned off two Boeing 747 jumbo jets on Tuesday for nearly $50 million.

President-elect Donald Trump called Tuesday for the cancellation of a multi-billion dollar Boeing contract to build the next Air Force One, calling the ballooning costs "ridiculous."

Hundreds of people on today are expected to attend ceremonies marking the 30th anniversary of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash that killed 520 people on board, the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in history.

Authorities hunting for missing flight MH370 are "increasingly confident" that wreckage found on an Indian Ocean island is from the ill-fated jet, the Australian official leading the search said today.

The jumbo jet, for many years the workhorse of modern air travel, could be close to running out of runway.

A Virgin Atlantic jet bound for Las Vegas is making an emergency landing at Gatwick Airport after developing a problem with its landing gear.

As Air India's iconic jet Boeing 747 departed for the US, many aviation enthusiasts took to social media to bid farewell to the gigantic aircraft. One post included that of a pilot who had flown the iconic jet himself.

One of Air India's Boeing 747s, which once ferried VVIPs like Prime Ministers, Presidents and Vice-Presidents, flew out of Mumbai's international airport on Monday, marking the end of an era for the iconic jet used for long-haul international flights

The existing fleet of planes are expected to fly for decades more, but in ceasing 747 production more than 50 years after aircraft's first flight, Boeing is closing a chapter in the history of civil aviation.

An article said said that the Boeing 747 was at 35,000 feet while the 737 at 37,000 feet.

Qantas Airways Ltd's last Boeing 747 jet drew a kangaroo tail in the sky off the Australian coast as it began its final flight to retirement in the Mojave Desert on Wednesday, ending the model's almost half a century of service at the carrier.

A specially-prepped Air India flight took off from Delhi this afternoon to evacuate around 400 Indians stranded in China's Wuhan since the start of the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The national carrier ferried in a Boeing 747 jumbo jet from its Mumbai hub for this purpose. The plane, which is carrying special medical kits put together by the Health...

A Boeing 747 cargo jet went off the runway at the Halifax airport in eastern Canada early Wednesday morning, causing minor injuries to the four-member crew and forcing the temporary closure of the airfield.

National carrier Air India is set to fly its 423-seater, double-decker Boeing 747 aircraft to two key domestic destinations, Mumbai and Kolkata, starting October 16 to meet the demand during the festive season.

The Boeing 747, the original jumbo jet that was the favorite American presidents and key to affordable mass market air travel in the United States, will pass into aviation history this week.

The sky seems to be the limit for Chinese online shopping portal Taobao, which auctioned off two Boeing 747 jumbo jets on Tuesday for nearly $50 million.

President-elect Donald Trump called Tuesday for the cancellation of a multi-billion dollar Boeing contract to build the next Air Force One, calling the ballooning costs "ridiculous."

Hundreds of people on today are expected to attend ceremonies marking the 30th anniversary of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash that killed 520 people on board, the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in history.

Authorities hunting for missing flight MH370 are "increasingly confident" that wreckage found on an Indian Ocean island is from the ill-fated jet, the Australian official leading the search said today.

The jumbo jet, for many years the workhorse of modern air travel, could be close to running out of runway.

A Virgin Atlantic jet bound for Las Vegas is making an emergency landing at Gatwick Airport after developing a problem with its landing gear.