Adiós to a Legend (Preview) - 15/11/2009

Last commercial flight of an Aerolíneas Argentinas Boeing 737-200 after just shy of 40 years of consecutive operations, during which a total of around 50 aircraft were operated and not one was lost in a fatal accident, in spite of all of Argentina's woes. A more complete video will follow this one shortly and in the meantime, I'd like to thank and congratulate all those at Aerolíneas Argentinas who made this day such a memorable one. Long live the "Chancha" (sow)!

Último vuelo comercial de un Boeing 737-200 ("Chancha") de Aerolíneas Argentinas, tras casi 40 años de operaciones ininterrumpidas, durante los que operaron un total de apróximadamente 50 aeronaves de las cuales ninguno se perdió en un accidente fatal pese a todos los altibajos del país. Un video más completo le seguirá a éste en breve y mientras tanto, los agradezco y felicito a todos los de Aerolíneas Argentinas que hicieron que este día fuera tan memorable. ¡Viva la Chancha!

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Aerolineas
• Argentinas
• Boeing
• 737-200
• Chancha
• Aeroparque
• rasante
• fly-by
• despedida
• farewell
• Buenos
• Aires
• Argentina

[rangelso]

Is this 200 or 200C ?

[Caipiroska243]

It's a 200Adv. or more specifically, a -236Adv., ex-British Airways.

[MrJaySaffa]

That was awesome to see the low pass from inside & experience the excitement! I was a flight attendant on a 200 in South Africa for the past year and I am going to miss it. What a great plane! And your AA 200's have really done well for AA for so long! I bet if they were given the opportunity they could have gone for another 10 or 20 years. Adios 200... we will always love you!

[Caipiroska243]

You're absolutely right, and the proof is that most of the ex-BA and ex-AF aircraft accumulated just 40-60% of the cycles and hours that AR's original -287s did. Structurally most of them were/are OK to go on for a good many more years. Like all Boeings of that era, built to last. LV-WTX for example flew until the age of 35. LV-JND, 34, and so on...

[fakucu]

@tinchosenventysix "not one was lost in a fatal accident" calculo que haces referencia a los despistes como el de ushuaia, por suerte no fueron fatales como aclara el autor del video, y los accidentes de austral fueron ambos los hermosos y tmb retirados MD. Abrazo! btw, vi tus videos, muy buenos!!!

[gmgt22]

Habiendo volado tantas veces en las Chanchas, siento nostalgia a no escuchar el rugido de sus motores. Hubiese dado cualquier cosa por estar en ese vuelo....

[GinoRc]

Aguante la chancha, se la va a extrañar mucho. Airbus es para putos

[LeanFerrenti]

que buen video, que adrenalina, ya se extraña el 732

[fabrizziofalconi]

Que calidez humana !! lindo lowfly, saludos desde Chile !!

[tinchosenventysix]

Muy bueno.

Pero sacale lo de "not one was lost", porque hubo dos piñas importantes en las que no se recuperaron los aviones.