Pan Am 747 Clipper Victor

Portrait of the "Clipper Victor", a Pan American World Airways 747 jet airplane parked at its terminal gate at Heathrow Airport, outside London, England, November, 1973. Baggage handlers wait with their idling luggage carrier trucks below the airplane's open cargo hold door. This particular aircraft, a Boening 747-121 with registration number N736PA, has an infamous dual distinction: It operated the inaugural Pan Am commercial 747 jet flight on January 22, 1970; and seven years later it was destroyed in the Tenerife airport disaster of March 27, 1977, the deadliest accident in aviation history. (Photo by Morse Collection/Gado/Getty Images)