Mark Stephens, a retired pilot, was hired by Delta Air Lines in 1989 and captained five ... When I captained the Boeing 727 for Delta, I could hand-fly the aircraft down to 100 feet during a ...

FLY BYE Delta Air Lines retired its last Boeing 727 on Apr. 6 following a flight from Greensboro, N.C., to Atlanta. An airline official said this was the final scheduled flight of a 727 by a major ...

The Boeing 757 is still flying after 43 years of service. It is clearly an older design and faces competition from other manufacturers with newer aircraft. However, the 757 has some design features ...

Northwest Airlines (NWA) purchased the Boeing 757-200 as a replacement for its 727-200 fleet and had a total of 45 of the aircraft when it merged with Delta. The -200 was the more popular variant ...

A Japan Airlines plane struck ... right wing clipped the tail of Delta Flight 1921, which was undergoing de-icing before departure. The Delta aircraft, a Boeing 727 with 142 passengers on board ...

With airlines phasing the 727 out in favor of those newer, more efficient planes, Boeing had little reason to keep the 727 around. Despite the fact that Boeing officially ended production of its ...