The Boeing 737-300 involved had a load factor of 65 percent. Given the drop of air travel in early 1991 because of recession and fears of terrorism, the average domestic load factor around the time of the crash was perhaps 10-15 points below that on the ill-fated jet. The accident ...
Another company which put an airliner into serial production believed it had an advantage upon which it could capitalize. Boeing had been the first to produce a modem airliner, the 247, and the first in the U.S. to build a four-engine transport, the Stratoliner. Neither was successful, but...