quarta-feira, 12 de setembro de 2018

[REL] Delta Air Lines Boeing 747-451 - N661US

More 747 repaints! this time from one of it's most iconic operators, though, not directly. Northwest was always sort of a synonimous for 747s in the US, and that legacy lived on when their fleet was transfered to Delta's fleet with the Delta-Northwest merger in 2008. N661US in particular was also the very first 747-400 built and delivered to an airline, and flew for some good strong 26 years until retirement in 2015. It has also been preserved in Delta's Flight Museum.

This aircraft was also involved in the Northwest 85 incident in 2002, in which a jammed rudder caused a serious loss of control of the aircraft, which went on to make an emergency landing in Alaska.