{"slug": "boeing-747", "label": "Boeing 747", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179", "qid": "Q179", "description": "widebody airliner family (1968–2023)", "entries": 9, "years": 7, "span": [1969, 1996], "span_label": ["1969 CE", "1996 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 6}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "new-york-city", "label": "New York City", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seattle", "label": "Seattle", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "canary-islands", "label": "Canary Islands", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tenerife", "label": "Tenerife", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bombay", "label": "Bombay", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "February 9", "text": "February 9 – The Boeing 747 \"jumbo jet\" is flown for the first time, taking off from the Boeing airfield at Everett, Washington.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#February", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "December 2", "text": "December 2 – The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its first passenger flight. It carries 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, from Seattle to New York City.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#December", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1977, "year_label": "1977 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "February 18", "text": "February 18 – American Space Shuttle program: First test flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise mated to the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371657539#February", "title": "1977", "revid": 1371657539, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1977, "year_label": "1977 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 27", "text": "March 27 – Tenerife disaster: A collision between KLM and Pan Am Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 people. This becomes the deadliest accident in aviation history.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371657539#March", "title": "1977", "revid": 1371657539, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1978, "year_label": "1978 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022681#January", "title": "1978", "revid": 1370022681, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1985, "year_label": "1985 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 23", "text": "June 23 – Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, is blown up by a terrorist bomb 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, on a Montreal–London–Delhi flight, killing all 329 aboard.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369963057#June", "title": "1985", "revid": 1369963057, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1987, "year_label": "1987 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 8", "text": "July 8 – A Delta Air Lines L-1011 strays 60 miles off course and nearly collides with a Continental Airlines 747 over the Atlantic Ocean. The two planes are carrying nearly 600 total passengers and may have come within 100 feet of each other.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372769014#July", "title": "1987", "revid": 1372769014, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1989, "year_label": "1989 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "February 24", "text": "February 24 – United Airlines Flight 811, a Boeing 747, suffers uncontrolled decompression after leaving Honolulu International Airport; nine passengers are blown out of the cabin to their deaths.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369557705#February", "title": "1989", "revid": 1369557705, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1996, "year_label": "1996 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 17", "text": "July 17 – Paris- and Rome-bound TWA Flight 800 (Boeing 747) explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 people on board.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371596794#July", "title": "1996", "revid": 1371596794, "section": "Events › July"}}]}