N428PA Jet Clipper Star of Hope lived up to its name when this B.707, in service for Korean Air, registered as HL7429, deviated significantly from course on April 20, 1978 on flight KE902 from Paris to Anchorage and entered Russian airspace near Murmansk. An air-to-air missile shot by an SU-15 hit the left wing, causing the Korean Air crew to make an emergency landing on a frozen lake (mehr von N428PA)
N531PA 'Clipper Freedom' was the second of a total of 10 SP-Jumbos ordered by and built for Pan American World Airways, which from 1976 were mainly used on the Pan Am Pacific routes. In February 1986 all Boeing 747SPs, six Lockheed L1011-500s and the Pacific route rights were sold to United Airlines (mehr von N531PA)