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    The Convair 990 Coronado was an American narrow-body four-engined jet airliner produced between 1961 and 1963 by the Convair division of American company...
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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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    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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    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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    and powered the Convair 880 airliner, while CJ805-23 (military designation TF35), a turbofan derivative, powered the Convair 990 Coronado variant. Turbojet...
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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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    1973 Nantes mid-air collision (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair 990 Coronado)
    images of the CV-990's damaged wing after landing. List of civilian mid-air collisions "ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-990-30A-5 Coronado EC-BJC La Plance...
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    Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair 990 Coronado)
    production of the Convair 990, initially destined for American Airlines. Formerly used as one of the experimental aircraft for Convair 990 type certification...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 737 Classic Canadair Challenger CL-601-3A-ER 1 1991 Un­known None Convair 990 Coronado 2 1962 Un­known None Operated by Scandinavian Airlines. Douglas DC-6B...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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