The Convair 990 Coronado is a retired American narrow-body four-engined jet airliner produced between 1961 and 1963 by the Convair division of American...
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On December 3, 1972, a Convair CV-990 Coronado charter flight operated by Spantax from Tenerife to Munich with 148 passengers and 7 crew crashed while...
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considering the 880 project a failure. The Convair 990 Coronado was a stretched and faster variant of the 880. Convair began development of a medium-range commercial...
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The company also entered the jet airliner business with its Convair 880 and Convair 990 designs. These were smaller than contemporary aircraft like the...
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1973 Nantes mid-air collision (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair 990 Coronado)
aircraft involved was a Convair 990-30A-5 Coronado, with serial number 30-10-22, and registered as EC-BJC. It was built by Convair in 1962 and it had logged...
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powered the Convair 880 airliner, and the CJ805-23 (military designation TF35) a turbofan derivative which powered the Convair 990 Coronado variant of...
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Swissair Flight 330 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair 990 Coronado)
killing all 47 passengers and crew. On 21 February 1970 HB-ICD a Convair CV-990 Coronado jet named "Baselland" was flying on the route with 38 passengers...
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On 5 January 1970, a Convair 990 Coronado operated by the Spanish airline Spantax crashed shortly after take-off from Stockholm Arlanda Airport, killing...
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PB2Y Coronado, a World War II United States Navy flying boat Naval Base Coronado, a United States Navy base in California Convair 990 Coronado, a passenger...
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the Government of South Africa. The airline flew one Convair 990 Coronado airplane and one Convair CV-880 airplane. "Ciskei International Airways Fleet...
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Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair 990 Coronado)
March 2022 – via Google News Archive. Ranter, Harro. "Accident Convair CV-990-30A-5 Coronado PK-GJA". Aviation Safety Network. Archived from the original...
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90 passengers and crew on board are killed. January 5 – A Spantax Convair 990 Coronado crashed shortly after takeoff from Stockholm's Arlanda Airport when...
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were co-written. Swissair was one of the few companies to order the Convair 990 Coronado for its medium and long-range routes. Although the aircraft did not...
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comparable role, configuration, and era Boeing 707 de Havilland Comet Convair 990 Coronado Ilyushin Il-62 Shanghai Y-10 Tupolev Tu-114 Vickers VC10 Related...
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comparable role, configuration, and era de Havilland Comet Convair 880 Convair 990 Coronado Douglas DC-8 Ilyushin Il-62 Shanghai Y-10 Vickers VC10 Related...
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1989 1998 Canadair Challenger CL-601-3A-ER 1 1991 Unknown None Convair 990 Coronado 2 1962 Unknown Operated by Scandinavian Airlines. Douglas DC-6B...
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HS121 Trident UK 3 1962 1964 1978 117 1995 Convair 880 United States 4 1959 1960 1962 65 2000 Convair 990 Coronado United States 4 1961 1962 1963 37 1994...
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airstrip in eastern Nigeria. The airline's first jet aircraft was the Convair 990 Coronado and then the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 entered service followed by...
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All eight crew were presumed dead. On April 12, 1973, a NASA Convair CV-990 Coronado (Reg.#N711NA) on a nearby training flight and a US Navy Lockheed...
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Network. 14 August 1972. Retrieved 27 May 2013. "ASN Accident Description (Convair-990)". Aviation Safety Network. 3 December 1972. Retrieved 27 May 2013. "ASN...
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1961, which supplemented its Convair CV-240 fleet, before taking delivery of its first jet aircraft, the Convair 990 Coronado, in 1963, which allowed it...
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configuration, and era Boeing 707 Boeing 720 Douglas DC-8 Convair 880 Convair 990 Coronado Shanghai Y-10 Vickers VC10 Related lists List of jet airliners...
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joined the jet age on December 1, 1963 with the introduction of the Convair 990 Coronado. During those years, the network was greatly expanded, which culminated...
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to London as Flight 504; and a Convair 990 Coronado aircraft, operating as Spantax Flight 400. The Spantax Convair 990 was able to make a successful emergency...
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operated by Germania.[citation needed] In 1967 the pilot of a Spantax Convair 990 Coronado mistook the 1360 m long runway of Finkenwerder for the 3000 m long...
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Airways owned 4 of the destroyed aircraft (2 Douglas DC-7 and 2 Convair 990 Coronado) which were 58% American owned. Trans-Mediterranean Airways lost...
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ARJ21 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Convair 880 Convair 990 Coronado Douglas DC-8 Boeing 707 Boeing 720 Ilyushin Il-62 Vickers VC10...
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injuries resulted, but the plane was written off. May 30, 1963: A Convair 990 Coronado, registration N5616, burned out while parked at Newark International...
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fan blades external to the turbine blades, was used by GE in the Convair 990 Coronado. A No 3 Augmentor, known as the "tip turbine", had the turbine blades...
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Iberia McDonnell Douglas DC-9 collide in mid-air with a Spantax Convair 990 Coronado over Nantes, France, killing all 68 people abord the DC-9, including...
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