The type remains in service with a handful of cargo and passenger airlines.

David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images Boeing on Tuesday is delivering the last 747 jet ever made, handing over a freighter version of its iconic aircraft to Atlas Air. Thousands of current and former ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. December 21, 1988 – Pan Am Flight 103 explodes 31,000 feet over Lockerbie, Scotland, 38 minutes after takeoff from London. Two hundred ...

Six days before the end of the Vietnam War, a daring and dramatic rescue mission flew into Saigon. On board the empty Pan Am 747, a handful of women volunteered to save others. CBS News Bay Area ...

(CNN) — Ever wondered what happens when a jet-setting flight attendant swaps life in the skies for life on the ground? If the experiences of former Pan American World Airways crew members are anything ...

The Jumbo Jet era was four decades old on 22 January 2009, as 40 years ago on that day Pan Am put its first Boeing 747-100 into service between New York and London. The anniversary, which is being ...

Only one US-based operator still flies the Boeing 747-400 in a passenger configuration: Atlas Air.

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