In 1978, an Air India jumbo jet exploded in mid-air near Bombay, killing 213.
The aerospace company was on a roll, having recently begun production of its new 747 jumbo jet.
Meanwhile, Airbus's A380 jumbo jet, still a relative newcomer, is showing up on a growing number of routes.
As quickly as that, the C-17 passed underneath the Air Canada jumbo jet with 103 people on board.
Orbital Sciences survived by developing a new rocket launched from a far more reliable platform, a jumbo jet.
There, prosecutors studied where the bomb had been positioned and how its explosion had fatally damaged the jumbo jet.
The bullet plane once did New York to London in 2 hours, 52 minutes--65% quicker than your typical jumbo jet.
Recent weeks have also seen renewed hostilities over funding for the development of Airbus's new super-jumbo jet, the A3XX .
The 43-year-old jumbo jet design still whisks us across oceans and will, I expect, make it to a half-century of service.
After all, it served that function well into the era of the jumbo jet, so there are no real physical constraints.
In 1984 he took his biggest gamble yet and launched an airline, with a single Jumbo jet shuttling across the Atlantic.
He was arrested in the United States in August after he aroused suspicion by trying to buy time on a jumbo jet flight simulator.
He was also a senior team leader at Lockerbie when a Pan Am jumbo jet, carrying 258 passengers, crashed on the Scottish Borders town in 1988.
In 1974, the first crash of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet occurred when a Lufthansa airliner crashed after takeoff at Nairobi airport in Kenya, killing 59 people.
After all, the strains on a jumbo jet turbine are far greater: 400 takeoff and landing cycles in a year, massive swings in thrust and temperature, sucking in unfiltered air.
The original jumbo jet could carry twice as many passengers as the next largest plane then flying and had a greater range, allowing, for example, a long transatlantic flight without refuelling.
The jumbo jet experienced turbulence on approach to Toledo and was within sight of the runway when the pilot pulled the plane up and circled the airport, according to reporters on board.
If I had told any of the coaches or players that I was going to trade their jumbo jet for a jumbo ice cream sundae, they would have laughed in my face.
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Moussaoui was arrested in Minnesota on immigration charges a month before the September 11 attacks after he aroused suspicion by trying to buy time on a jumbo jet flight simulator at a flight school.
Eldest daughter Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana may have sold her Boeing 747-200 jumbo jet, but the family's fleet of planes included, at least until recently, a DC-10, a blue-and-red Boeing 737, a Canadian Challenger 601 and a BAC-111.
When I visited Alwaleed in Saudi Arabia in October 2008 as the financial crisis was beginning to take hold, I asked him why he ordered the jumbo jet, especially since he already had a fully decked out Boeing 747.
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Kennedy airport, when an Air France Airbus A380 clipped the tail fins of a much smaller Comair flight CRJ700, observers and analysts have been asking questions about whether a similar accident could happen elsewhere, and just when a super-large jumbo jet is too big.
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After a quick meeting and tearful farewell with his family, he is escorted into the first class compartment of a Northwest Airlines jumbo jet for a long flight to Detroit in the U.S. Upon landing, he gets a thorough medical examination by doctors at the Henry Ford Hospital, a clean bill of health, and delivers a speech to a sympathetic audience in New York.
The batteries are suspected of contributing to two jumbo-jet 747 freighter crashes since 2010.
As soon as Airbus announced it was to embark on a project to develop the first "super" jumbo in 2001, it received an order for a private variant of the jet (then known by its codename of A3XX) from a client in the Middle East.
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