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says Boeing's Kraft. "It's going to be a
great airplane for our customers" — not
to mention a mainstay in the passenger
to freighter conversion market."
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RENDERING OF Boeing's first 737-800BCF
planned for induction later this year.
BOEING
JEROME GREER
CHANDLER is a two-
time winner in the
Aerospace Journalist of
the Year competition's
Best Maintenance
Submission category; he
won in 2000 and 2008.
His best-seller 'Fire
and Rain' chronicles
the wind shear crash of Delta Flight 191 at DFW.
Chandler's passion for aviation safety is more
than professional. It's personal. Two of his
relatives have perished on commercial airliners,
one of them in the infamous Braniff Electra
crash of 1959.