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1971 July 30 – In Japan
, an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 collides with a Japanese fighter jet; 162 are killed.
1971 A Boeing 727 (Alaska Airlines Flight 1866) crashes into the side of a mountain near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
1972 The Black September group hijacks a Lufthansa
Boeing 727 over Turkey
, and demands the release of three of their comrades still held for the massacre of Israel
i athletes at the Olympic games
.
1973 Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 (Boeing 727) is shot by Israel
i fighter aircraft over the Sinai Desert, after the passanger plane is suspected of being an enemy military plane. Among 113 on board only five (one crew member and four passengers) survive.
1974 A Boeing 727 carrying TWA Flight 514 crashes 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Dulles International Airport during bad weather, killing all 92 people on board.
1982 A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 146 on board and eight on the ground.
1988 A Colombia
n Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuela
n border killing 143.
1990 At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9
carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with a Boeing 727 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.
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