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In this issue we review what has been the record for the largest number of passengers who have flown in a airplane from history. Foto Norman Cox
Not many days ago we saw how in a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III more than 800 passengers departing from Afghanistan, But has it been the operation in which more passengers have been carried on a plane, be it military or commercial??
the answer is very interesting, but before reviewing it, some data must be put into context. For example, and as we well know, the commercial aircraft and military have their maximum takeoff weights and maximum load capacity.
Another point to take into account in the case of commercial aircraft, is that these have a maximum capacity of seated passengers, where for example a Boeing 747-400 could hold up to 660 maximum certified passengers if it were configured in a single class with seats of economy class.
In this same context, we have seen how the airlines in season of pandemic have looked for ways to keep their passenger planes flying, but with load, so the seats have been removed, thus massifying its capacity, the same thing that happened with what is so far the flight with the largest number of passengers in history.
What was the maximum number of passengers a plane has ever carried??
The C-17 flight out of Afghanistan does not have the maximum record, but the one who does have it also did it under particular circumstances within an emergency evacuation.
The historical maximum that is even a Guinness Record is taken by a Boeing 747-200 of the Israeli airline El Al when Operation Solomon was carried out with the aim of evacuating Ethiopian Jews from Addis Adaba in Ethiopia.
It is so the 24 May 1991, on this special mission 1.088 people they flew inside the Boeing 742 suitable without seats to maximize its capacity, although record of the time reveals that they would have finally been 1.122 passengers where even two were born you drink during the flight.
Without a doubt, during Operation Solomon, other flights with numbers close to those 900 passengers were fulfilled, but only for this case the final number was made public, given the magnitude and world record.
The following historical fact is the flight of the Boeing C-17 with 823 people on board, that holds the record for this military aircraft on that flight.
Another example, but that has not been done yet, is he Airbus A380 as the world's largest passenger plane, could carry up to 868 passengers in a single class, but no airline has opted for that configuration.
Finally, the largest cargo plane in the world Antonov An-225 although due to its size one would think that it can carry thousands of passengers, its fuselage presents several challenges, one of them is not having a pressurized cargo area and narrow spaces given its construction focused on cargo, so calculations have raised it to 444 people in seats.
Both the A380 and the An-225 could carry many more passengers than those marked here if missions without seats were carried out, as in the case of the Boeing 747-200 by El Al, so knowing the maximum capacity by filling up to the last space is difficult to know.
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