Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...

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In the early '70s the skies saw something new in aviation, a three engine or "trijet" aircraft. With examples like the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar and McDonell Douglas DC-10, travelers noticed not ...

And, with regard to Air Force One, Lockheed gave up on large passenger aircraft when it lost hundreds of millions on the L-1011 back in the 1970s. The second problem is our over-regulated and over ...

The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was a groundbreaking aircraft for its time. In the transformative decade of the 1960s, technological and engineering advancements in aviation occurred at breakneck speed.

We will get 72 of the aircraft at a cost of $72 billion. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning ... in 1971 when rising development costs for the L-1011 jet almost sent it bankrupt.

The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar are arguably the best aircraft of the trijet era. While both planes had several differences, what truly set them apart was the ...

The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was undeniably one of the most advanced aircraft of its time. With modern avionics and increased automation, the aircraft could virtually land itself and could even ...

The Lockheed L-1011 'TriStar' was one of the defining aircraft of the early widebody era and the third twin-aisle jet to enter service. It followed the Boeing 747 and the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 ...

Development lasted until 1983. The L-1011 fleet had a remarkable in-service reliability rate of 98.1%. However, the financial difficulties proved to be too much to tackle. Lockheed built a total of ...

United Airlines sold five of the TriStars to Delta Air Lines and one to LTU in 1988, ending its short-lived use of the aircraft. United Airlines is one of the few existing airlines that holds the ...