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On March 15, 1962, Flying Tiger Line Flight 7816/14, an L-1049H Super Constellation (N6911C), crashed on approach to Adak Island Naval Air Station, Alaska due to pilot error, killing one of eight on board. The aircraft was operating a Military Air Transport Service (MATS) cargo flight from Travis AFB
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On October 11, 1983, Flying Tiger Line Flight 9014, a Boeing 747 (N806FT), ran off the runway at Frankfurt International Airport after a cargo pallet broke loose; the three crew and three passengers survived; the aircraft was substantially damaged, but was repaired and returned to
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On September 23, 1962, Flying Tiger Line Flight 923, an L-1049H Super Constellation (N6923C), ditched in the North Atlantic after three engines failed, killing 28 of 76 on board. The aircraft was operating a MATS charter flight from Gander to
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On October 25, 1983, Flying Tiger Line Flight 2468, a Douglas DC-8 (N797FT), ran off the runway at NAS Norfolk due to crew and ATC errors; all five on board survived; the aircraft was substantially damaged but was repaired and returned to
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On March 18, 1956, a Flying Tiger Line Curtiss C-46 (N9995F), crashed at Pelly Bay, Canada after the left wing struck terrain while on a VFR approach, both pilots and the passenger survived, but the aircraft was written
461:). The Los Angeles headquarters operation included its own engine shop and jet maintenance business. Flying Tigers also made livestock carriers for airplanes, some comparable in external size and shape to the standard 366:, the largest civilian airliner until the Boeing 747 entered service. The first Douglas DC-8-63F, registered as N779FT, was delivered to the airline on June 26, 1968, and the other eighteen followed until 1972. 645:
On December 15, 1965, Flying Tiger Line Flight 914, an L-1049H Super Constellation (N6914C), struck California Peak after the pilot became disorientated in IFR conditions, killing the three crew.
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Ex-Flying Tiger Boeing 747-200F (there is a tiny FedEx logo aft of the cockpit window; Japan required FedEx aircraft to retain the Flying Tiger paint job for several years)
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all-coach passenger flights. Approximately 998 pilots worked for the airline based throughout the US. Large crew bases were situated at Los Angeles, New York City and
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On September 24, 1955, Flying Tiger Line Flight 7413/23, a Douglas C-54 (N90433), ditched in the Pacific after three engines failed, killing three of five crew.
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Tiger's Ad Hoc Charter livestock flights provided airlift for exotic animals. Two examples were thoroughbred racehorses and show animals from
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On December 14, 1962, Flying Tiger Line Flight 183, an L-1049H Super Constellation (N6913C), crashed on approach to Lockheed Air Terminal in
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August 6, 1986 – A Flying Tigers aircraft, bound for Columbus Rickenbacker International Airport. (LCK), mistakenly lands at Boltan Field.
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At its peak, the Tigers employed approximately 251 flight attendants and carried up to a record 594 passengers and crew on its
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shipping service. In 1965, Flying Tiger Line began operating jet aircraft on September 27, when the first (as N322F) of four
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By the mid-1980s, Flying Tigers operated scheduled cargo service to six continents and served 58 countries. It surpassed
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crashed near San Francisco International Airport after an unexplained course change, killing the three crew.
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was delivered. The Boeing 707 remained in the fleet only few years, until the arrival of the higher-payload
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awarded Flying Tiger Line the first commercial air cargo route in the U.S., a transcontinental route from
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due to pilot incapacitation (suspected heart attack), killing all five on board and three on the ground.
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on 1 October 1980. It also operated military contract services, most notably DC-8 routes between
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in December 1988. On August 7, 1989, Federal Express merged Flying Tigers into its operations.
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era for both cargo and personnel (the latter with leased aircraft). The airline was bought by
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in 1980 as the world's largest air cargo carrier after acquiring its rival cargo airline
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The airline's first DC-8-63F. delivered to the airline. Taken at Seattle airport in 1972.
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swing-tail aircraft in 1961, becoming one of the first carriers in the world to offer
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used in the FedEx flight operations. They operated a recording company subsidiary,
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fleet comprised the largest trans-Atlantic charter operation through the 1950s.
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More details of the following can be found at the ASN Aviation Safety Database
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crashed near Kuala Lumpur due to crew and ATC errors, killing all four crew.
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while operating a Travis AFB-Tokyo cargo flight, killing all eight on board.
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Charter and scheduled passenger operations were flown by their subsidiary,
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https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7210.pdf
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in the United States and a major military charter operator during the
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On December 24, 1966, a Flying Tiger Line Canadair CL-44 (N228SW)
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The Flying Tigers - American Volunteer Group - Chinese Air Force
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On February 15, 1979, Flying Tiger Line Flight 74, a
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On March 21, 1966, Flying Tiger Line Flight 6303, a
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On January 7, 1953, Flying Tiger Line Flight 841, a
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Flying Tigers Airlines

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Los Angeles
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Cold War
Federal Express

Robert William Prescott
Los Angeles International Airport
Westchester
Los Angeles
California
Flying Tigers
World War II
1st American Volunteer Group
Budd Conestoga
United States Navy
Samuel B. Mosher
Douglas MacArthur
occupation of Japan
Civil Aeronautics Board
Los Angeles

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