Boeing 737

The Boeing 737 is an airliner built by the company Boeing (E. - U.) since 1965. B 737 is a short or middle-distance plane. It is about a twin-jet aircraft (two engines, under each wing). It accomplished its first flight on April 9th, 1967.

It is, in 2004, the plane more sold with the world, with a total of more than 1 200 Boeing 737 of third generation sold in the whole world, and more 4 300 on the whole.

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There exist 9 models of the 737 divided into three generations. The original models are the 737-100 and 200. The traditional are the 737-300, the 737-400 and 737-500. Finally the New generation comprises the 737-600, the 737-700, the 737-800 and 737-900.

; 737-100 : First generation, motorized by engines Pratt & Whitney JT8D (1 144 were produced). The plane divides 60% of its cell with Boeing 727, including the engines in the same way standard (3 on B 727); all this with an aim of limiting the costs of research and production. It was launched by the company Lufthansa in 1964 and entered in service in 1968. A total of 30 apparatuses was built and delivered.

; 737-200 : This version is an extension of the 737-100 targeting the market of the USA. United Airlines is the first purchaser. He is launched in 1965 and enters in service in 1968. He is then updated as a 737-200 Advanced which becomes the standard version of production.

; 737-300, 400 and 500 : Second “traditional” generation (design beginning of the year 1980) equipped with more modern and more economic engines CFM56-3 (1 990 specimens were produced)

; 737-600, 700,800 and 900 : New generation (737NG) equipped with engines CFM56-7B and an entirely numerical ultramodern cockpit. Already more than 1.200 apparatuses of this generation were produced.

According to persons in charge of Airbus, Boeing envisages to launch, at the end of 2007, a new family of middle-distance carriers to replace the 737-600/700/800/900 which will take again the technologies developed for the 777-200LR and for the 787.

Characteristics

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Principal accidents of Boeing 737

March 3rd 1991 a Boeing 737 of United Flight, flight 585, is crushed following a loss of control of the apparatus, killing all the passengers and team members.

September 8th 1994 a Boeing 737-300 of USAir, flight 427, takes off on the way Chicago O' Hare Airport for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. With 19:03, the pilot loses the control of the apparatus, the 127 passengers and 5 team members die in the accident.

The causes of these two accidents (flight 585 and flight 427) will be explained only 4 years and half later following a new similar incident occurred on June 6th, 1996 on flight 517 of the company Eastwind Airlines. It is about the longest investigation of the history of the civil aviation.

March 6th 2003 a Boeing 737-200 of Air Algérie is crushed with Tamanrasset, making 102 dead of which several French, and 1 survivor.

July 8th 2003 a Boeing 737-200 of Sudan Airways is crushed in an interior flight. One finds one survivor among the 117 passengers.

January 3rd 2004 the 737-300 of the company charter Egyptian woman Flash Airlines is inserted in the Red Sea shortly after its takeoff of Charm el-Cheikh. 148 people, as a large majority of the French tourists, die in the accident.

February 3rd 2005 One 737-200 of an Afghan private company is crushed in the area of Kabul, killing its 104 occupants.

August 14th 2005 the Vol Helios Airways 522 of the Cypriot company Helios Airways was crushed with 115 passengers on his board, including 48 children and 6 team members. Coming from Larnaca (Cyprus) and bound for Brno (Czech Republic), the apparatus was crashé on a not inhabited zone with Varnava, with 40 kilometers of Athens in Greece. There is no survivor. October 20th 2005: It would be confirmed that following a technical intervention, the valve of Pressurization remained in manual position, therefore open. During the rise (depressurized), the crew would not have clearly identified alarm “cabin altitude” by confusing it with the alarm of configuration takeoff (of which they did not hold account since they were already in flight).

August 23rd 2005 a Boeing 737-200 of the TANS Peru is crushed little before the landing with Pucallpa with the Peru, killing 40 of its 98 passengers.

September 5th 2005 one 737-200 of the company Indonesia Mandala Airlines is crushed shortly after takeoff on an inhabited area of the town of Medan in the island of Sumatra. The assessment is heavy: 101 of the 117 occupants of the plane and 47 victims on the ground.

October 22nd 2005 a Boeing 737-200 of the company Bellview Airlines (Nigeria) is crushed three minutes after its takeoff of Lagos, close to Otta. This flight in direction of Abuja transported 116 passengers, no survivor.

September 29th 2006 a Boeing 737-800 of the Brazilian company Gol disappears from the radar screens, following a collision with a Embraer Legacy 600 (business aircraft to reaction, capacity of 16 people), during the flight 1907 between Manaus and Brasilia. 155 people (of which 149 passengers) were on board. None survives the crash landing. None of the 7 occupants of the Legacy 600 was wounded.

2007 a Boeing 737-400 of the company indonésienne Adam Air, flight 574, disappears with 102 people on board.

March 7th 2007 a Boeing 737-400 of the company Indonesia Garuda Indonesia spleen its landing on one of the tracks of the airport of Yogyakarta, in the island of Java. According to the airline company, the assessment (still provisional) of 21 died and 109 wounded out of the 140 passengers whom the vol. counted It would seem that speed too high at the time of the landing is at the origin of the accident.

May 5th 2007 a Boeing 737-800 of the company Kenya Airways which one had lost the trace after his takeoff in Cameroun, is crushed. The apparatus transported 106 passengers and 8 team members, in addition to the pilot. It carried out the connection between Abidjan, in Ivory Coast and the capital of Kenya, Nairobi, with stopover in the Cameronian city of Douala.

August 20th 2007 a Boeing 737-800 of the Chinese company China Airlines sees one of its two engines taking fire a few moments after its arrival with the carpark with the airport of Naha (Japan). The 157 passengers and 8 team members are healthy and safe.

See too

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