No one was injured when the 727 landed in an open field about 3.3 km (2 miles) from the airport in the eastern city of Trinidad, airline officials said.
Lloyd Aereo Boliviano flights have been largely suspended for nearly a year due to the airline’s debts and legal troubles. (Reuters)
That’s one way to reduce your costs, landing off-airport!
Im not sure what your’e going on about with the windows, do you mean the extra pane in the port cockpit windows? If so would’t this be a DV window for the pilot?
Look at this photo of the Royal Flying Doctor plane. Now if you are a passenger and not on a stretcher, you have a perfect view from the windows. Now imagine yourself as a pilot having to look sideways or behind you from that window, unless the seat is set very high, it looks like a problem area with a guaranteed crick in the neck.
The first commercial jet to land at McMurdo was Modern Air Transport Convair 990 N5615 “Polar Byrd 1” on 22 November 1968, carrying 60 American tourists on a round the world tour.
And here it is in real life, now of course scrapped.
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