Olympic Airlines
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Olympic Airlines, formerly named Olympic Airways, was the flag carrier airline of Greece. The airline's head office was located in Athens. The airline operated services to 37 domestic destinations and
Olympic Airways operated ten Douglas DC-6Bs between 1958 and 1972 serving the longer domestic and European routes.
Olympic Airways' first jet aircraft type, the de Havilland Comet at Manchester Airport in 1966. The BEA codeshare logo can be partially seen on the fuselage, in red.
Olympic Airways Boeing 707-384B SX-DBE in 1989, still in the original scheme with bare metal lower fuselage
Olympic Airways Boeing 727-284 SX-CBA in 1987
Olympic Airways Flight 3838
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On 14 September 1999, Olympic Airways Flight 3838, a flight operating for the Hellenic Air Force, experienced multiple pilot-induced oscillations while over southern Romania, killing seven people. The
SX-ECH, the aircraft involved in the accident, pictured in 1998