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Dec 12, 2019, 5:26 pm

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Originally Posted by WHBM

It's 1983. 7A and 7B are variants of the same type. 7B is a twin jet (thus 7A is as well).The carrier is from Eastern Europe.

It ought to be a Tu134 but I can't see any of the Eastern airlines using something that small. However, Tarom had the BAC One-Eleven instead, and Bucharest is pretty close range (when flying London to Dubai nowadays you tend to pass over it. So let's say :

7A - Tarom BAC One-Eleven 500 Abu Dhabi to Bucharest
7B - Tarom BAC One-Eleven 400 Bucharest to Amsterdam
7C - KLM B747 Amsterdam to Chicago
7D - TWA 727 Chicago-Kansas City-Albuquerque

well now! progress is being made ...

however, as noted above, the "variants" hint applies to the as-flown routing, and TW/JFK appear on the original routing

7.OA: RO correct, BAC One-Eleven incorrect, BUH correct
7.OB: RO correct, BAC One-Eleven correct (variant is not specified in the reference OAG), AMS incorrect
7.OC: KL incorrect, ORD incorrect (we already know this was JFK)
7.OD: 727 incorrect, MCI incorrect (we already know this was STL)

Last edited by jrl767; Dec 12, 2019 at 5:36 pm

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